. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. ALPINE FL 0 WERS. Part I. giving to alpine plants a treatment quite different to what has hitherto been in vogue will be fully seen. The' only sound prin- ciple generally employed is that of elevating the plants above the level of the ground. Naturally protected in winter by a dry- bed of thick snow, some of them cannot exist on our level wet soils in that season. But this principle of elevation should in all cases be accompanied by the more essential one of giving the plants abundant means, of rooting deeply into good and per- fectly fir
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. ALPINE FL 0 WERS. Part I. giving to alpine plants a treatment quite different to what has hitherto been in vogue will be fully seen. The' only sound prin- ciple generally employed is that of elevating the plants above the level of the ground. Naturally protected in winter by a dry- bed of thick snow, some of them cannot exist on our level wet soils in that season. But this principle of elevation should in all cases be accompanied by the more essential one of giving the plants abundant means, of rooting deeply into good and per- fectly firm soil, sandy, gritty, peaty, or mingled with broken stone, as the case may be. How not to do this is capitally illus-. Fig. 2.—The great Pyrenean Saxifrage, one, foot in diara. (From a photograph.} trated by persons who stuff a little soil into a chink between the stones in a rockery, and insert some minute alpine plant in that. There is usually a vacuum between the stones and the soil beneath them, and the first dry week sees the death of the plant—that of course not being attributed to the right cause. Precisely the same end would have come of it if the experiment had been tried on some alp bejewelled with Gentians and Pri- mulas ! Every one of these two brilliant families should have means of rooting a yard or more into a suitable medium. Thus we should not pay so much attention to the stones or rocks as to the earth from which they protrude, There are cer- tainly alpine plants that do not require a deep soil, or what is usually termed soil at all; but all require a firm roomy medium for the 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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