io2 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
The frame-ground in Regent’s Park has to be a 
spacious one, to produce all that is required in the 
way of spring and summer plants. The fogs are the 
greatest enemies of the London gardener, and more 
especially on the heavier soil of Regent’s Park. Not 
even the most hardy of the bedding-out plants will 
survive the winter, unless in frames. Even wall-flowers 
and forget-me-nots will perish with a single bad night 
of fog, unless under glass. Although, on the other 
hand, it is surprising how some species apparently un¬ 
suited to withstand the climate will survive. Among 
the rock plants growing in a private rock-garden within 
the Park Azalia procumbens , that precarious Alpine, is 
perfectly at home. Clumps of Cypripedium spectabele come 
up and flower year after year, and Arnebia echioides , the 
prophet flower, by no means easy to grow, seems quite 
established. But to return to the frame-ground, from 
whence all the bedding plants emanate. Violas are a 
special feature in the Park, and one which is much to 
be commended, as their season of beauty is so protracted. 
They are all struck in frames, one row of fifty-three 
lights being devoted to them, in which 23,750 cuttings 
are put annually. The green-houses are used for stor¬ 
ing plants not only for the decoration of the Park 
but for some fourteen other places outside. The 
Tower, the/* Law Courts, Mint, Audit Office, the 
Mercantile Marine in Poplar, are all supplied from 
Regent’s Park. The Tate Gallery and Hertford 
House have to be catered for also. Whether the 
visitors to the Wallace Collection even notice the 
plants it is impossible to say; they might miss their 
absence. But the gardeners have to give these few 
pots considerable care, as they will only stand for a 
