LINA'RIA ALPrNA. 
ALPINE TOAD-FLAX. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANOIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHCLARIN*. 
Native of 
Heiglit. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Austria. 
6 inches. 
July, Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1570. 
No. 305. 
Linariais deduced from linum, flax; the herbage 
of some species of each being very similar. It is 
called alpine, being a native of European mountains. 
This neat little trailing plant is suitable for rock- 
work, where, in a southern aspect, a dry situation, 
and sandy peat, it bears our severest winters, which 
would rarely be the case, in a low damp border, with- 
out protection. How unlike is this to the following 
subject — the Dahlia ! The one by its hiunble stature 
and delicacy, seems to solicit protection ; whilst the 
other commands attention. The Linaria is regarded 
principally by the practised cultivator. The Dahlia 
becomes an object of agreeable interest to every one 
who possesses a garden, unless that possessor be one 
whose mind is so chained down to mother earth, that 
he never can raise an eye of satisfaction upon the 
beauties of her vegetable children. These pourtray 
too much happiness — too much of the spontaneous 
loveliness of nature, to meet even the placid contem- 
plation of some few — very few — morbific souls. 
The Linaria alpina being raised from seeds, in 
spring, will flower in autumn. Young seedlings, or 
well-rooted cuttings, best survive the winter. 
Hort. Kew. 2. v. 4, 15. 
