. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. THE ROCK-GARDEN. 29 few rough slabs, arranged so as to crop out from the soil in the centre, completed the, preparation for the neater Sedums and Sempervivums, such Saxifrages as casta and Rocheliana, such Dianthuses as alpinus and petrceus, Mountain Forget-me-nots, Gentians, little spring bulbs, Hepatica angulosa, &c. They were planted, the finer and rarer things getting the best positions, and, when finished, the bed looked a nest of small rocks and alpine flowers. In about eight weeks things had " taken so well,"
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. THE ROCK-GARDEN. 29 few rough slabs, arranged so as to crop out from the soil in the centre, completed the, preparation for the neater Sedums and Sempervivums, such Saxifrages as casta and Rocheliana, such Dianthuses as alpinus and petrceus, Mountain Forget-me-nots, Gentians, little spring bulbs, Hepatica angulosa, &c. They were planted, the finer and rarer things getting the best positions, and, when finished, the bed looked a nest of small rocks and alpine flowers. In about eight weeks things had " taken so well," and the bed looked so beautiful, from a dozen plants of Calandrinia umbellata that had been planted on the little prominences flowering so gaily and profusely as to make the arrangement equal to. Fig. 27.—Small rocky bed of alpine flowers, about 6 ft. across. " It in not BrowinK Hko a treo In bulk tliut mokes thinga better ; one of bedding plants from the " effective " point of view, that another was made in the same manner, with more loam, how- ever, to suit the different tastes of the alpines, and planted with as different subjects from those in the other bed as could be got; confining them, however, to the choicest alpines, except on the outer side of the largest stones of the margin, where such plants as Campanula carpatica bicolor were planted with the best results. The only attention these beds have required since planting has been to keep a free-growing species'from over-running a subject like Gentiana verna, to water the beds well in hot weather —to keep them in fact thoroughly moist—and to remove even the smallest weeds. With the exception of the exquisite Gentiana bavarica, every alpine plant grew well, and the beds presented fresh floral interest every week from the dawn ot spring till late in autumn. I have described the way by which this happy result has been brought about. An extended scheme of this sort would be ad-. Please note that
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