A LIST 
of 
HARDY and ALPINE PLANTS 
Suited to Rock Gardens 
¥ 
AMARYLLIDACEAE 
Rhodophypoxis Baurei. A small African bulb with 3 in. long hairy grassy 
foliage and large flowers with rose-carmine pointed petals and sepals. 
$1.50. 
R. platypetala. Similar to above with white or almost white flowers. 
Both are lovely. 35c. 
BERBEREDACEAE 
Berberis stenophylia corailina compacta. A very slow-growing small shrub 
of 10 in. or so; narrow spiny glossy leaves; flowers red-orange; fruit 
blue. 60c. 
B. s. Irwinii. Eventually grows to 2 ft. The branches curving; leaves 
spiny and very glossy; flowers clear yellow. 60c. 
Epimedium niveum. A splendid ground cover; pale green divided leaves, 
the leaflets heart-shaped; waxy white fly-away flowers in March. 50c. 
E. sulphureum. More robust in habit; leaves rusty-bronze in winter; 
flowers creamy. 25c. 
E. violaceum. A lovely lavender edition of EB. niveum. 50c. 
% Vancouveria hexandra. 10 in. Creeping ground cover; more delicate 
in all its parts than Epimedium; pale compound leaves; creamy flow: 
ers on wiry stems. April. 35c. 
BORAGINACEAE | 
Lithospermums like sun and are not greedy as to fare but well drained 
position are a necessity. The prostrate species do not like freezing 
winds. If you have snow, it is best to place them where they will be 
covered by it, and if by chance they are burned black, they will, in 
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