THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
July 5, 1913. 
AMONG THE ALPINE FLOWERS. 
“ Gk>lden butterflies gleam dn the sun, 
Laugh at the flowers, and kiss each one; 
And great bees come, with their sleepy tune, 
To edp their honey and circle round; 
And the flowei-s are lulled by that drowsy 
sound, 
Ajid fall asleep in the heart of the noon.” 
Phili'p Bourke Marston. 
where they are kept in check, the plants 
generally increase in size and in beauty. 
D. alpinus is evidently one of those which 
have a penchant (for lime, though this is 
not essential, and it is a pleasure to see 
it in such a soil, flowering well, and even 
sowing itself and colonising the places 
have to provided all the year round it 
is decidedly worthy of attention. Cuttings 
root very readily, even if good-sized shoott 
are taken, provided they are put in a dose 
propagating case with a gentle bottom 
heat. As with most eranthemums^ flus 
species is more satisfactory when treaU-i 
as an intermediate house plant than h 
the stove. K. 
BORDER CARNATIONS IN 
APRIL. 
It is not easy to grow winter-floweriii 
carnations satisfactorily unless they 
grown in a house by themselves, and, lo 
some eyes, one bloom of a border carnatien 
is worth many of the other kind, eiw 
when the latter are at their best. '* 
while the calyces burst very little, if it 
all, more than is the case with the plants 
flowering in July. 
The plants (a little more than 200) were 
from layers taken in the usual way 
August, and were placed in their flowenng 
° _5lO_cJ«vl nots. 
Such is a part of the picture the poet round about by its healthy TigoroM, self- 
draws of the garden in the high tide of sorra progeny. Where it is happy it is the 
summer, and as we look upon our flowers freest, perhaps, of alpine pinks, but for - 
in the mid-day of the brigiht hours we seem pa^rt, I have a prefere^e lor anomer gardener (Mr. G. (Cousins), therefore sng- 
to enter into the spirit of his words. In gem in point of colour. This is Dianthus gested this spring that he should try wki 
the full sunlight many of the flowers ap- neglectus, of which I may speak again. some border plants, pi- 
pear droivsy amid all their brightness, and The Snowdon Thyme. ting them up in February, and growing 
look “ asleep in the heart of the noon.’^ Most of us “ know a bank where the wild them under glass, at first in a vinery, and 
Yet the alpines are inexpressibly beautiful, thyme blows,” and many of us grow this later in a cool greenhouse. I ha^ hm 
even though the shrinking, more modest fragrant plant in our gardens in some form much pleased with the result, for rae 
beauties of the earlier months have gone or other. For a while the so-called “ crim- foliage cf the plants kept clean, the flowers 
to their rest. Instead of the more unas- son ” variety of Tliymus serpyllum was came of good colour, ^d sufficient 
suming flowers, which consort so well with written largely in the list of coveted plants, ’ ' ' ’ ' " 
the softer charms of the spring months, we and its white sister variety found, and 
have the more opulent charms cf their later still finds, favour with many. Here there 
sisters. Heldanthemums open with the is a very beautiful variety, which came to 
morning in all their glory, and^ should the me as having been collected on the Welsh 
weather be bright, fall asleep on many days Snowdon. At present it is very beautiful, «xxvi ^-- . 
by the time the sun reaches the meridian ; though not a large plant, with its soft nink pots (two or three plants ^ 
glowing Or delicately-coloured pinks open flowers close set on the foliage they hide so at, and soon after, the miaale o 
their lovely eyes to the wooing of the sun prettily at its flowering season, but which ary. Top air was given them a way 
of July; campanulas give their lovely cups ig too neat to be concealed for ever from each house, and the temperature wa g 
• " ■ ■ ' ’ - view rally 65 to 60 degrees during the day W- 
’ Helichrvsum ruBestre. Sir Walter flowered by the end of .uaw 
Just a note of warning regaixidng this ®^^vrforty"’hCs 
“everlasting” rock plant. It is too rank On May 5 th nhnts had 
for many places, and is not good enough house, and not all the plants 
frages yet send up their lovely plumes; any'but very large collections. Its flower^. ciren • the soil »» 
gay poppies flaunt in the winife. and a host height depends on the soil, but it ought No to^dressm„ Sg ’ ^ Tantslw 
of other flowep proclaim their enjoyment alw^s to be in very poor material. A -"sod for the July Howe , . 
of the time with all its wealth cf beau*ty. dry limy moraine, or a bank of rubble. 
From among them we must select a few limestone will suit it, and 
for notice. there it will pass among many other plants, 
Spiraea decumbens. though impossible to admire it 
. V „ , 1 1 jy 1 -1 It has silvery, woolly foliage and in pool 
As a rock or wall garden shrub of traal- J “ everksting ” yellow flowers 
ing habit f^ can surpass fepirim decum- high. 
S. Ahnott. 
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or bells of blue or white; cranesbills and 
heronsibills in plenty brighten the rock 
garden; veronicas afford Rs their welcome 
flowers of blue or white; soapworts are in •• everlasting ' rocK piant. xu i» ulfu ^ . 
sheets of bright colour; a few silver saxi- places, and is not good enough house, and not all t 
Silt 
^ \ that used for the July flowers. 
s particularly good, better than n 
th us last July. Ronnie 
ibens in (combined beauty and grace, and a 
handsome plant, seen the other day, 
brought out this fact in a most striking 
way. Planted in an almost perpendicular 
retaining wall, it wias a.bout three feet 
through, and was exquisite, with its mass 
of small and beautiful leaves, and the many, 
ERANTHEMUM 
TUBERCULATUM. 
^ Some well-flowered examples of this 
many fl'owers so closely, yet gracefully, aV: Pr«tty ^“<1 distinct species of eranthemum 
ranged in their sprays, ^e colour of these fere r^ently noted m flower in tiie in¬ 
is a soft white, which harmonises well with space ana laoou.. 
the delicate greenery of the folia,ge. One It markedly ^om the mo^ wm- 
■finds this an easy plant on rockwork also, monly-grown pecies ^ranthemuin s^b to lovers of the 
and, as it will thrive in loam, leaf-soil, or E pulche lum, whose Affers are col- J,. , , J. A. 
in nf>or was of fair size, out u. 
ethers; Grand Dame did 
Walter Herriott fairly well; Sir 
well; Duchess of Wellington^well, e 
that the colour was not as blu 
should be ; Mrs. G^ffith Jones w«^ 
lent in colour, but the blooms varieo 
quality ; Cyclops did '^eU. jj,,, 
The experiment seems to m 
lovers of border carnations i« 
for many beautiful 'blooins 
this way at a very smU carnab* 
space and labour;^ bW r<o^ 
peat and sand, it can well be accommo- 
lected in a terminal cone-like head, and 
dlted^-i^^h'othWfloweVs’^^lm also from those which a nTJNTATA. 
den. It is raUed from cuttings, and will g™wth and s.parely branch^. Eranthe- RIBBERTIA DEN IA I^^ 
thrive in. almost any .position. We have As a climbing plant 
n i+^bSi+^in a ^uth^ast^^nosure but branched, compact little bush, whose slen- As a clime 
Sther plants of equal Wauty have been der branches are SgnSTS'from a foliage It I 
seen in other aspects in different gardens. ^ ^^hT^/^vrTre^* smaU and ovate m ^ 
Dianthus alpinus. shape. The flowers, which are scattered mak^ ^^^^Tf^tiv^support, the bark 
Except for a certain hardness of colour- over the shoots, instead of being the” said *^shoots being when ie»rtS . 
.r ... in one head or cluster, are pu- -bit^ ^Sd. alltr witii Jhe yo^^ 
ing, Dianthus alpinus is one of the finest m one neaa or ciusrer. a.o f"*- "“"“j ,3 T colour with which tne 
of a most delightful class of rock plants, about one and aAalf inches Ire also deeplv suffused. The mature 
the alpine pinks. It is not a success every- somewhat sugg^tive of the flowery ofVbronzy green, •’fL jiiig 
we find ffardens in which it vardia Humboldti oorymbiflora. The small f^e “ore ot yvfation, acc®'^'!,^ 
accordi-^ 
where, and we find gardens in which it v^xvaio, x.xxxxxxm^v.^x^ua -of there a certain vaTiaTio«, fg. 
has b4en attempted year after year with wiarts.on the stems are very sugg^tive ^ thramoimt If exposure the «« 
but little succoM. In others, again, it scale insects, and as these ^ts are ^ry the . P g^^tumn to sP.”®^ i» 
thrives admirably, and covers its pleasing fond of this eranthemum .*boy j ^ colden-yellow, aibout tbj-e® 
leaves with its magnificent deep rose very numerous before their presence is suggeati^ 
the slugs, destroy the small plants, but tent. Where decorative flowering plants raised. 
