. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. de for Pelargoniums, merelysinking rocks into the soil sufficiently to protect theirroots, and to keep up the general appearance of .1rock garden. But an alpine garden cannot be in a day,except at a greater expense than is consistent with thelimited means of the villa residents, for whom aloneI pretend to write. To apply to a gardener to stocka garden with alpine plants so well established as toensure flowers the first year, would a long bill,and even then the lady would probably have t
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. de for Pelargoniums, merelysinking rocks into the soil sufficiently to protect theirroots, and to keep up the general appearance of .1rock garden. But an alpine garden cannot be in a day,except at a greater expense than is consistent with thelimited means of the villa residents, for whom aloneI pretend to write. To apply to a gardener to stocka garden with alpine plants so well established as toensure flowers the first year, would a long bill,and even then the lady would probably have to con-tent herself with the commonest kinds. It is betterto be satisfied at first with mixing alpines with com-moner flowers, and gradually to weed these out asthe former get estalilished and come into beauty. Inthis way alone can she avoid being asked the questionwhich used to annoy me, At what time of year willyour garden be in beauty ? I have found it a great interest to get my friends,when travelling abroad, to send me seeds or roots intheir letters of any pretty wild flowers they come. FiG 53. —CERASIIUM .\L11NUM. across ; in this way I have established in my gardenplants from the mountains of Algeria, Norway,Switzerland, &c., which have a personal and geogra-phical interest to me, independent of their intrinsicattractions ; and I find it interesting to notice thedifferent habits of the plants from different that have reached me from Norway are mostlyidentical with the mountain plants of Great Britain,but not the less acceptable in a lowland garden. The accompanying sketch of Cerastium alpinum(fig. 53) is made from a plant raised from seed sent mefrom Norway three years ago. Like many Norwegianplants, it nestles close among the stones, as if toavoid the fury of mountain winds, the short flower-stalks bringing the dead-white starry blossoms inclose contact with the rather dark foliage. It blos-soms early, and is therefore valuable as helping tokeep up the
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