. The wild garden; or, Our groves and gardens made beautiful by the naturalisation of hardy exotic plants ... Gardening; Flowers; Wild flowers. 124 THE "WILD GARDEN. of these plants sends up a little fountain of small golden flowers. For bare, stony, or rocky banks, poor sandy ground, and ruins, tbey are admirable. Alyssum Wiersbeoki and A. saxatile are strong enough to take care of themselves on the margins of shrubberies, etc., where the vegetation is not very coarse, but they are more valuable for rocky or stony places, or old ruins, and thrive freely on cottage garden walls in some di
. The wild garden; or, Our groves and gardens made beautiful by the naturalisation of hardy exotic plants ... Gardening; Flowers; Wild flowers. 124 THE "WILD GARDEN. of these plants sends up a little fountain of small golden flowers. For bare, stony, or rocky banks, poor sandy ground, and ruins, tbey are admirable. Alyssum Wiersbeoki and A. saxatile are strong enough to take care of themselves on the margins of shrubberies, etc., where the vegetation is not very coarse, but they are more valuable for rocky or stony places, or old ruins, and thrive freely on cottage garden walls in some districts ; some of the less grown species would be welcome in such places. There are many species, natives of Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Corsica, Sicily, , and Dalmatia ; Asia, principally Siberia, the Altai Mountains, Georgia, Persia,.and tlie entire basin of the Caspian, is rich in them. Windflower, Anemone.—A numerous race of dwarf herbs that. The Alpine Windflower (Anemone alpina). contribute largely to the most beautiful effects of the mountain, wood, and pasture vegetation of all northern and temperate climes. The flowers vary from intense scarlet to the softest blue ; most of the exotic kinds would thrive as well in our woodlands and meadows as they do in their own. There is hardly a position they may not adorn—warm, sunny, bare banks, on which the Grecian A- blanda might open ite large blue flowers in winter ; the tangled copse, where the Japan Windilower and its varieties might make a bold show in autumn ; and the shady wood, where the Apennine Windflower would contrast charmingly with the Wood Anemone so abundantly scattered in our. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray; New York, Scribner and Welford
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