. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 82 OASSELL'S POPULAR GAEDENING. COMMON GAEDBN FLOWEES. ARABIS, ALTSSUM, AND AUBRIETIA. Arabis. â The White Arabis, Wall or Rock Cress, is perhaps the most common, as it is as- suredly one of the most heautiful and ufeful plants in cultivation. It seems to thrive almost equally â well in town and country, and there are few gardens, large or small, new or old, that are not lighted up in April by one or more plants of the White Arabis. It grows freely in either sun or shade, on the level as well as on raised mounds, or sloping banks, though it flowers mos
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 82 OASSELL'S POPULAR GAEDENING. COMMON GAEDBN FLOWEES. ARABIS, ALTSSUM, AND AUBRIETIA. Arabis. â The White Arabis, Wall or Rock Cress, is perhaps the most common, as it is as- suredly one of the most heautiful and ufeful plants in cultivation. It seems to thrive almost equally â well in town and country, and there are few gardens, large or small, new or old, that are not lighted up in April by one or more plants of the White Arabis. It grows freely in either sun or shade, on the level as well as on raised mounds, or sloping banks, though it flowers most freely either on a raised hillock or bank, on good soil of consider- able depth. It is, how- ever, by no means parti- cular about soil or site, and will grow anywhere and everywhere the com- mon daisies will thrive, and very often where these will hardly deign to live. The name of >Wall Cress is supposed to be derived from the fact that the Arabis are often found in dry places, such as on the debris of rocks, mouldering ruips^ or old walls. But in gardens the Arabis also thrives well on good soil of almost any sort. Some of the largest tufts of this fine old plant have been seen in kitchen gar- dens, a, yard across, anfl. as white as a sheet. Such large masses are most effective when slightly raised in the middle, or when facing the spectator upon sloping banks, either by themselves, or placed side by side with masses of Forget-me-nots or Aubrietias of almost equal size; the snowy whiteness of the Arabis comes out with great force and distinctness under such treatment. But the Wall Cress thrives almost equally well under a system of annual division. The plants readily lend themselves to this mode of "increase or of culture ; though not creepers, their wide-spread- ing dwarf branohlets root readily aa they closely hug the ground; and should any of them fail to do so when attached to the parent plant, they root speedily. and surely almost as soon as detached and place
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