DWARF-GROWING PLANTS 



growing, dark-green leafage starred with numbers of 

 white, yellow stamened flowers about an inch in 

 diameter. When established it forms a spreading 

 mass sometimes three feet across. It is found in some 

 parts of Britain. 



Echeveria. — Succulents best suited by gritty soil and 

 elevated sunny positions, though many are used as 

 edgings for flower beds. 



Epigaa repens. — Canadian Mayflower. A charming 

 little creeping shrub, threading its shoots through and 

 under the fallen leaves, and bearing in the spring small, 

 fragrant, flesh-coloured flowers. It does best in a soil 

 of peat or leaf-mould made porous with grit and sand, 

 and thrives in the shade of pine-woods. It should be 

 naturalised under evergreens in English woods where 

 it will readily become established if carefully planted. 



Epimedium. — Plants possessing foliage of pleasing 

 form and colour and bearing racemes of flowers yellow, 

 red and white in tint. The best-known and most 

 popular E. pinnatum cannot be classed as a dwarf-grow- 

 ing plant, as it sometimes attains a height of three feet. 

 Its leaves assume an attractive bronzed hue in the 

 autumn. Epimediums grow most freely in a moist, 

 peaty soil. 



Erica.— Heath. Dwarf Heaths are fully as indis- 

 pensable in the wild garden as are the tall-growing 

 species. Paths leading over a hill from one portion of 

 the grounds to another may be bordered by dwarf 

 Heaths, they may be planted on craggy ledges of rock 

 and in the short turf on the verge of a cliff, where they 

 will stretch a purple line against the blue of the sky. 

 Shade and shelter are fatal to the well-being of these 

 Heaths, which require every glint of sunlight that 

 brightens the earth and every breath of air out of the 

 heavens to perfect to the utmost their display, and they 

 should be naturalised where they can enjoy these to the 



