PLANTS WORTH GROWING 91 
Arabis. — Easily grown, prodigiously free flowering, 
and hardy as the commonest weed, Arabis albida, 
and especially its double form, with its spikes of 
stock-like flowers, may be described as one of our 
most serviceable edging plants. The Arabis may 
also be recommended as eminently suitable for 
carpeting graves, being capable of looking after 
itself and enduring great hardships. It certainly 
has a propensity for outgrowing its allotted bounds, 
but may be cut back at will. 
Armeria. — Commonly known as Thrift or Sea 
Pink, Armeria maritima and its rich rose-coloured 
variety, Laucheana, are extremely useful evergreen 
edging plants. As the name Sea Pink indicates, 
the Armerias are particularly suited to cultivation 
in seaside gardens, a qualification that many plants 
cannot share. In addition to the dwarf varieties of 
A. maritima there are several taller growers with 
large globular heads of bright pink or rose-coloured 
flowers. One of the best is A. latifolia Ruby, its 
size and colour being of exceptional attractiveness. 
There are white forms of the Armerias, but somehow 
these never seem to make an attractive display, the 
rosy pink varieties making a far more cheery show. 
Artemisia. — Everybody knows the old-fashioned, 
fragrant-leaved, shrubby Artemisias which bear 
such homely names as Southern Wood, Wormwood, 
Old Man, and have played an important part in the 
composition of fragrant herbs and petals which made 
the pot-pourri beloved of our grandparents. There 
