observe that success is very doubtful, unless they 
be kept together on the north side of artificial 
rockwork; or in pots, to have a due portion of 
protection. Planted in the open borders, these 
low subjects, if destroyed by no other means, will 
undergo gradual destruction by being overgrown. 
The majority of what are called Alpine Plants, 
grow on mountains, in the enjoyment of a thin, 
pure, atmosphere, where the rays of the sun, in the 
summer, are much tempered by the altitude, and 
where, in winter, a fleecy covering of snow protects 
the plant, just as the fleecy covering of another 
materia], here protects the cultivator. There are 
no means by which, in this country, these plants 
can be cultivated with the same amount of satisfac- 
tion as in pots. Were we to aim at accommodating 
a collection of Alpine Plants in the best possible 
manner, we should nearly adopt the plan recom- 
mended by Mr. Pavers, in the tenth volume of 
Loudon’s Gardeners’ Magazine. They should be 
raised on a stand two feet high, and two feet wide, 
of any length required, the ends pointing east and 
west; on the south side of which should stand a sub- 
stantial hornbeam hedge, or a wall. Here the pots 
could be plunged in sand, to prevent the too rapid 
transition from wet to dry in summer ; and in 
winter a covering of glass or mats could be applied, 
as may be most convenient to the means or taste 
of the cultivator. An additional precaution we 
have seen practised with advantage ; which is 
neatly filling up the interstices between the plants, 
on the tops of the pots, with moss. The effect is 
pleasing as well as protective. 
