. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. RUIN AND WALL GARDENS. 7>Z. Fig 29 '* Here stood a shattered arcliway gay with flowefs. And here had fallen a great part of a tower—> Whole, like a crag that tumbles from a cliff, And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers; And high above a piece of turret stairs. Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun"— is a true picture from Tennyson's ' Idylls' of the plant-life on many old ruins ; and on many comparatively new structures we see flowers and ferns quite at home. Hundreds of plants that are trea
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. RUIN AND WALL GARDENS. 7>Z. Fig 29 '* Here stood a shattered arcliway gay with flowefs. And here had fallen a great part of a tower—> Whole, like a crag that tumbles from a cliff, And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers; And high above a piece of turret stairs. Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun"— is a true picture from Tennyson's ' Idylls' of the plant-life on many old ruins ; and on many comparatively new structures we see flowers and ferns quite at home. Hundreds of plants that are treated to the most carefully prepared soil grow naturally on the barest and most arid surfaces. This fact must not be supposed to be contradictory of previous statements, as to the necessity of giving alpine plants a suitable material to root into ; it is the open loose texture of the ordinary rockwork, or its solidly cemented masses, into which the plants cannot root, that does the mischief It is not without considerable observation of the capabilities of walls, even walls in good repair, to grow numerous rare and pretty plants, and, moreover, keep them in perpetual health with- out trouble, that I recommend everybody who takes an interest in the matter to have the fullest confidence in growing them easily in this way. Most of those who are blessed with gardens have usually a little wall surface at their disposal; and to all such I can name some plants that will grow thereon better than in the best soil. A mossy old wall, or an old ruin, would D. 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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