. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. 58 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. adopted, it is desirable to allow some plants of a trailing habit to fall over its outer edge. If the outer margins of the boxes were well covered, it would matter little what form were used. The common Stonecrop, Sedum Sieboldii, Thymus latnigiiwsus, the woolly-leaved Cerastiums, and many other hardy plants, will do this effectively. A yet more satisfactory window rock-garden can be made outside of a window to which light has free access, by forming a miniature alpine garden on the sill. It is
. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. 58 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. adopted, it is desirable to allow some plants of a trailing habit to fall over its outer edge. If the outer margins of the boxes were well covered, it would matter little what form were used. The common Stonecrop, Sedum Sieboldii, Thymus latnigiiwsus, the woolly-leaved Cerastiums, and many other hardy plants, will do this effectively. A yet more satisfactory window rock-garden can be made outside of a window to which light has free access, by forming a miniature alpine garden on the sill. It is done by simply putting a few irregular stones along the front margin, and packing a few small bits of turfy peat or loam inside them to prevent the fine soil, afterwards to be added, from being washed out. Then fill in the hollow with sandy loam, mixed, if convenient, with morsels of broken sandstone. A few mossv or ancient-looking stones should be half-buried. The Window Rock-garden (interior view). on the upper surface, and then the whole should be planted, the best time to do this being in April. It is not merely possible to keep alpine succulents in this way : it is easy to grow a multitude of the most interesting and beautiful kinds ! I never in garden or wild saw these plants in better health, or looking more at home, than on the outside of a low sunny window in Mr. Peter Barr's house at Tooting. The accompanying figure shows a view of this from the interior; it was no less pretty seen from without. It is, however, impossible to show in an engraving the exquisite effect of the Lilliputian succulents. The attention required is very trifling—some little taste in forming and planting, a judicious selection of plants, and thorough waterings through the dry season. I need hardly add that small and brilliant-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustra
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