. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 704.—Epimedium rubrum. Fig. 705.—Helianthemum vulgare. Fig, 70G.—Thalictrum minus. The foliage of the Thalictrums is useful for the alpinery. When I first saw one species at Zermatt, I mistook it for Maiden-hair, as the leaf is similar to that of an adiantum. We cultivate two or three species, but the T. minus (fig. 706) is the best. The flower is not attractive. Amongst plants to be grown merely for their foliage, the Alyssum alpestre (fig. 707) is curious from it
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 704.—Epimedium rubrum. Fig. 705.—Helianthemum vulgare. Fig, 70G.—Thalictrum minus. The foliage of the Thalictrums is useful for the alpinery. When I first saw one species at Zermatt, I mistook it for Maiden-hair, as the leaf is similar to that of an adiantum. We cultivate two or three species, but the T. minus (fig. 706) is the best. The flower is not attractive. Amongst plants to be grown merely for their foliage, the Alyssum alpestre (fig. 707) is curious from its stellate hairs. A variegated species of Arabis is very showy, but it is apt to extend itself over its neigh- bours, so that unless restrained it is dangerous to the sur rounding plants. Amongst the more showy plants, the Yellow Poppy {Pa- paver nudicaule, fig. 708) is conspicuous. The Fig. Poppy. colour is very striking, and I know scarcely anything more astonishing than to see the brilliant but delicate blossoms expand under the fiercest blaze of the sun without showing the slightest injury. Y Fig. 707.—Alyssum al- pestre (leaf nat. size, and stellate hairs en- larged).. 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 Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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