. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. THE ROCK-GARDEN. 17 up here and there from the mass of vegetation will produce the best effect. Alpine flowers are often seen in multitudes and in their love- Uest aspect in some little elevated level spot, frequently without a rock being visible through it, and, if so, merely peeping up here and there. They are lovely too in the desolate wastes of broken rock, where they cower down between the stones in isolated, lonely-looking tufts ; but it is only when Gentians and silvery Cudweeds, and minute white Buttercups, and strange lar
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. THE ROCK-GARDEN. 17 up here and there from the mass of vegetation will produce the best effect. Alpine flowers are often seen in multitudes and in their love- Uest aspect in some little elevated level spot, frequently without a rock being visible through it, and, if so, merely peeping up here and there. They are lovely too in the desolate wastes of broken rock, where they cower down between the stones in isolated, lonely-looking tufts ; but it is only when Gentians and silvery Cudweeds, and minute white Buttercups, and strange large Violets, and Harebells that waste all their strength in flowers, and fairy Daffodils that droop their heads as gracefully as Snowdrops, are seen, forming a dense turf of living enamelled work, that alpine flowers are seen in their fairest aspects. Fortunately the flowery. Fig. iS.—A little upland valley in a rock-gairden. (From a fhoiogra^h.) turf and stony mound are much more possible to us than the bare moraine blocks or arid cliff. The accompanying illustration is a view of a httle elevated stony valley in an artificial rock-garden Its surface is composed of comparatively large stones, buf between them there are chinks leading to deep masses of earth, broken stones, and grit, and from thence issue vigorously tufts of the Moss Campion and other, plants which lap over the hard edges of the stones, and become at all seasons cushions of glistening verdure—in spring and summer of innumerable starry flowers. Stone and plants are seen in about equal pro- portions, and the- effect is one 6i the most pleasing I have ever seen in garden or in wild. In cultivating the very rarest and most minute alpine plants, the stony, or partially stony, surface is to be preferred. In their C. 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 t
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