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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
among the alpine 
flowers. 
•■A garden U a loveeome thing, God wot! 
koie plot, 
Fringed pool, 
Kerned grot- 
The veriest school 
(K peace; and yet the fool 
('jontends that God is not _ 
Sot God! in gardens ! when the eve is cool. 
\4V but I have a sign: 
•Tu'very sure God walks m mmo l 
Thomas Edward Brown. 
very liandsome in the leaf, making huge doubtless coming under tl»ej>an of the 
\s we wander through the rock garden, 
either our very otvn or that of some friend 
whose garden treasures we enjoy, we find 
how full of meaning are the words of the 
poet quoted above. “The veriest school 
^peaoe” such a garden is, and we can¬ 
not but feel within it that we are elevate<l 
in both soul and body by our companion¬ 
ship with the flowers it cherishes and we 
love so well. Methinks it is a relief to 
turn from the clamour of the outer world, 
the din of faction, the striving for wealth, 
to seek communion with peace in its 
highest attributes among the flowers. The 
little placid pool, with its water-lilies, so 
calm and so lovely on its mirror-like sur¬ 
face; the dopes and knolls covered with 
the charm of veidure or the glow of bright 
flowers, all are inexpressibly restful and 
soul-reviving. 
Primula Lissadell Hybrid. 
Among the many primulas which came 
into 'bloom in May, and have prolonged 
their flowers until they keep company 
with the alpines of June, is that find 
hybrid, Lissadell Hybrid, the offspring of 
the hybridisation of P. Cockburniana and 
C. pulvexulenta. Though of the same par¬ 
entage as P. Unique^ it seems to bear out 
the claim that it is a better and more 
vigorous plant than Unique. Planted to¬ 
gether, and in exactly the same conditions, 
the Lissadell Hybrid is finer in every way 
—taller, more sturdy-looking, and giving 
a greater quantity of bloom on a more 
robust stem. In a somewhat low, rather 
moist place, in peat and loam, with a con¬ 
siderable amount of sun, this soft vermilion 
primula is very beautiful indeed. 
Saxifrag^a Eng^leri. 
Tliere are two Pomeos in the field claim¬ 
ing the name of Saxifraga Engleri. They 
are both in this garden, but I have no 
h^itation in saying which is the better 
plant of the two; although, when it comes 
^ a point of deciding which is entitled to 
bear the name of the great authority on 
the saxifrages. Professor Engler, applied to 
t^hem, is entirely a different matter. The 
nomenclature of the silver saxifrages is a 
very Serbonian bog, and they are wise who 
not ventTu-e far into its depths. The 
wo named may be distinguished as S. 
-ngleri of Messrs. Bees, and that of Mr. 
Reginald Farrer. Of these, I unhesita- 
ingly prefer the former, though I dis- 
aim any desire to say whether it is or 
s not the true Engleri. As a rock garden 
P ant it is the finer, whether in or out of 
^ piant that has been here for 
^ral years, and has been reduced in 
and again for purposes of pro- 
P gat ion, IS very fine at present, with its 
^autiful, long, silvered leaves in 
mmdsome rosettes, and bearing now iip- 
whi+r. ^ score of handsome plumes of 
of T« to a height, some of them, 
PreS?®. ^ I* is exceedingly 
as orf seasons, and I look upon it 
^ most ornamental of all our 
thaf other S. Engleri, 
scribed farrer, cannot be better de- 
alniTiio+ heen done by that able 
P St, when he says: “My Engleri is 
blue-and-silver starry rosettes of narrow 
leaves. But, as the foliage is like a mag¬ 
nified paradoxa ; so also are the dull green¬ 
ish-yellow flowers that apjiear sparsely on 
the rare flower sterns.’^ 
Geum Heldreichi. 
Of the many plajits which seed and sow 
themselves here, none is more acceptable in 
its way than Geum Heldreichi. Although 
a good iborder plant as well, it is very 
handsome indeed when in the rock garden, 
and its presence here and there is most plants. 
strict florist, is yet i^reciated as it grows 
by the side of the little artificial rill that 
leads the water into the water-lily pool. 
Elsewhere, on slope or crowning low 
mound, a good many plants of Heldreioh’s 
avens help to lend brightness and glow to 
the garden. 
Arenaria purpurascens. 
One grows more and more surprised at 
the absence from even large rock gardens 
of certain beautiful and characteristic 
One of the most distinct of the 
AURICULA ROXBURGH. 
,both brightness and a varied as^t to Tirly suggestive o the ooloming of the 
SX'g«..™. P. t..!. W conv, .j, inb 
' - pression of the character of the plant in 
which^in colour and in size presents ^me 
iustification for the magniloquent varietal 
name of “ superba.” Self-sown seedlings 
vary a eood deal, and some of these are 
beautiful with their varied forms and 
other respects. Picture a little trailing 
carpet of shining leaves, all spangled in 
May and June with delightful pale lilac 
starry flowers, coming in midway in size 
IhehS^Sent shades of colour, but all between those of Arenaria baleariea-that 
slight y a „ ■ ggpjiiuff has gem of gracious free-flowering sandwoits - 
tL^Ste^ cross foSn, which reminds one Ld those of the lovely white A. montajia. 
of s^e lychnises; and, although On a spot beneath the level of the eye. 
