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BARR & SUGDEN’S AUTUMNAL 
[1868. 
ALPINE SUCCULENT PLANTS; 
And others which may be associated with them in the new style of Miniature and Grotesque Gardening. 
Last year, in Battersea Park, a few beds were planted with Echeveras and Sempervivums, and the 
ground clothed with various coloured Seduins. These, on account of their singular and grotesque beauty, 
and representing a new feature in gardening, excited a large amount of interest and considerable dis- 
cussion. Some of our best gardeners lmve this year produced, in their leaf gardens, curious and beautiful 
designs with the above plants; while Mr. Gibson, the talented superintendent of Battersea Park, lias 
given us, with considerable success, a miniature Alpine landscape, which would probably have been 
perfect had he shown the snow on the mountain top instead of in the valley, and the massive forms of 
the Echevera Metallica lower down the mountain sides. The subject, however, is one which admits of 
the greatest possible diversity of taste, so that perhaps what appeared to us a misconception in Mr. 
Gibson's arrangement, may have simply been on his part a copying of nature. Still, we think if the 
Antennaria tomentosa (which, by permission, from its snow-like aspect, we might call the Snow-plant) 
had been on the top of the pseudo-Monte Bosa, the effect would have been more pleasing. 
The plants we have been referring to are admirably adapted for a Multum-in-parvo Window Garden. 
Invalids, and those who are confined much indoors, and whose desire after the pleasures of gardening is 
strong can have it gratified to a very considerable extent outside their sitting-room windows; and as 
consisting of road scrapings and loam ; this we moulded into mounds and ridges of various forms. 
Along the depressions or volleys we planted the blue Sedum ; the mounds and ridges we covered with 
distinct masses of different coloured Sedums and Sempervivums ; close to the rustication we planted 
Saxifrages, A’C., to droop over ; and in the crevices of the rustication any little plant that would grow. 
So that instead of having, as is customary in places of this kind, a blaze of a few gay colours for a month 
or two, we have groups of upwards of fifty distinct plants — in fact, a vegetable microcosm on which we 
can feast our eyes again and again all the year round with untiring interest. The subjects being all 
perfectly hardy, with the exception of Echevera secunda glaucn, which must be replaced in the Winter 
by some other’plant. In Autumn a few Snowdrops and Scilla Sibirica might be introduced. 
THE FOLLOWING PLANTS ARE IN POTS : — s (? 
1669 Echevera seounda glauca, the most useful of the Echeveras for edgings to beds, for 
forming devices, Ac. Special prices for large quantities, on application . . per dozen 12 0 
1670 Echevera metallica ; 2s. 6 d. each and upwards, according to size. 
1671 Echeveras. Other species and varieties each, Is., 2s. 6 d., and 
1672 Saxifraga, 100 in -10 to 50 varieties, all perfectly hardy 
1673 „ 50 in 40 to 50 „ „ 
1674 „ 25 in 25 „ „ 
1675 „ 12 in 12 „ „ 
1676 Sedum (Stonecrop), 100 in 40 varieties, all perfectly hardy . 
1677 „ 50 in 40 „ „ . . 
1678 „ 25 in 25 „ „ . . 
1679 „ 12 in 12 „ „ . . 
1680 Sempervivum Californicum, the most extensively used of the House 
the most beautiful, quite hardy ....:.. 
1681 „ 12 in 12 varieties, all hardy 
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. 35 
. 21 
6s., 9s., and 12 
. 03 
. 35 
. 21 
6s., 9s., and 12 
Leeks, and certainly 
per dozen Gs. and 9 
12s., 18s., and 24 
1682 Sundry close-growing dwarf plants, which associate well in devices with the plants abovi 
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quoted, such as Antennaria tomentosa, Ac., 100 in 50 varieties 
1683 „ „ ,i 50 in 50 „ 
1684 „ „ „ 25in25 » 
1685 „ „ „ 12 m 12 „ 
FINE SORTS OF HARDY ALPINE PLANTS FOR ROCKWORK 
d. 
1686 100 in 100 varieties . 60s., 70s., and 80 0 
1687 100 in 50 „ . . 50s. and 60 0 
1688 100 in 25 „ . . 42s. and 50 0 
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. 35 
. 21 
6s., 9s., and 12 
&c. 
1689 50 in 50 varieties . . . 30s. and 35 
1690 25 in 25 „ . . . 15s. and 21 
1691 12 in 12 „ 6s., 9s., and 12 
FINE SORTS OF HARDY HERBACEOUS BORDER PLANTS. 
d. 
1695 50 in 50 varieties . . . 30s. and 35 
1696 25 in 25 „ . . . 15s. and 21 
1697 12 in 12 „ 6s., 9s., and 12 
60s., 
70s., and 80 
50s. and GO 
42s. and 50 
1692 100 in 100 varieties 
1693 100 in 50 „ 
1694 100 in 25 „ 
HARDY DWARF FOLIAGE AND OTHER PLANTS, SUITABLE FOR PERMANENT EDGINGS. 
1698 Assorted or one kind, 9s. and 12s. per dozen. 
CARNATIONS. 
1699 Choice Named Varieties per dozen, 12s. and 15s. Fine ditto, 9 0 
PICOTEES. 
1700 Choice Named Varieties per dozen, 12s. and 15s. Fine ditto, 9 0 
PINKS. 
1701 Choice Named Varieties per dozen, 9s. and 12s. Fine ditto, 6s. and 7 6 
FERNS. 
Hardy British and Exotic Varieties, 15s., 18s., 24s., and 30s. per dozen. 
Indoor Varieties, for Plant Cases, ic., 18s., 24s., and 30s. per dozen. 
PALMS, for Hall and Drawing Room Decoration. 
We are continually having consignments of these from the Continent. Prices range from 10s. Sd. to 
42s., according to size and variety. These, with a great variety of other Foliage Plants, we have always 
at our Warehouse. 
