. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. and this inconvenience makes me preferto establish my plants at once in my garden if I canpossibly do so. Besides, if left through the winter in frames thatare not under the care of an experienced gardener,many plants will probably be lost by damping off,as to regulate properly the amount of air and lightrequired in winter weather for hardy mountain plantsdeprived of their natural protection of snow is a taskbeyond the powers of most lady gardeners. Thosewho are fortunate enough to have a greenhouse
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. and this inconvenience makes me preferto establish my plants at once in my garden if I canpossibly do so. Besides, if left through the winter in frames thatare not under the care of an experienced gardener,many plants will probably be lost by damping off,as to regulate properly the amount of air and lightrequired in winter weather for hardy mountain plantsdeprived of their natural protection of snow is a taskbeyond the powers of most lady gardeners. Thosewho are fortunate enough to have a greenhouse acces-sible from a sitting-room will of course winter theirnewly arrived alpines there, where they will be undertheir own care, and if the house be not heated somuch the better. My readers will have observed that the principalquality necessary to make a successful alpine gardeneris patience. Without this ingredient in their compo-sition let no one hope to succeed. I have also greatdoubts as to whether some slight knowledge of botanyis not essential to the full enjoyment of alpines ; with-. Fig, 72.—TWO alpines. this saves the plants from getting injured by the post-mans stamp. On receiving such a parcel, if it beearly in the season, I put the plants at once into mygarden, in the places where I intend them to remain ;hut if it is late in the autumn, this plan does notanswer, as they have not time to get establishedhefore the winter arrives; a frame is, therefore,needed for these, but not heat, nor must they bekept in the frame when the cold spring winds havepassed away, for the earlier they are established out-of-doors the better will they thrive in the long a large proportion of alpine plants die down inthe autumn, and it is possible that in a late season(like that of last year) they may not have reappearedaboveground even in May. We must not, therefore,conclude that they are dead. I have often known aplant to reappear long after I had given it up forlost; or when in
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