. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. lo ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. Lagasca, Lychnis pyrenaica, and others, bearing and preferring hot sunny exposures, do well. But many plants that would bear the heat and drought, if they could get their roots far enough back, would quickly die if placed in such fissures from the paucity of soil and moisture near the front; therefore it is usually better, in building rockwork with these fissures, to keep the main rocks slightly apart by means of pieces of very hard stone (basalt, close-grained ' flag,' &c.), so as to leave room for. Fig. S.
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. lo ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. Lagasca, Lychnis pyrenaica, and others, bearing and preferring hot sunny exposures, do well. But many plants that would bear the heat and drought, if they could get their roots far enough back, would quickly die if placed in such fissures from the paucity of soil and moisture near the front; therefore it is usually better, in building rockwork with these fissures, to keep the main rocks slightly apart by means of pieces of very hard stone (basalt, close-grained ' flag,' &c.), so as to leave room for. Fig. S.—Horizontal fissure, witli firm descending bed of earth, grit, &c. a good intermediate layer of rich loam, stones, or grit, mingled with a little peat. The front view of such a structure would be thus—the dark spaces in Fig. 8 being firmly filled with the appropriate mixture of soil before the upper course of large rocks is 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
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