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Title: Alpine flowers for English gardens
Identifier: cu31924052764796 (find matches)
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935
Subjects: Mountain plants
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Part I. ALPINE SUCCULENTS. 39 of from forty to nearly sixty feet, gives such an unearthly " cha- racter to the mountain ridges of New Mexico. Many of the dwarf plants with which the Alps and Pyrenees and other mountain chains are clothed are succulent. They are as hardy and as easily grown as the common Houseleek, which is an example-of a northern succulent that must be familiar to all. The way in which these plants have hitherto been found most useful in flower-gardens is in the making of edgings, borders, &c.; but when people begin to be more familiar with their curiously chiselled forms, they will use them abundantly for making small mosaic beds. Their great value as border and rock plants need not be spoken of here, as we are now merely considering them in relation to the bedding system, from which till very recently
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4^ r -^ * Fig. 34.—Bed of alpine succulents, with centre of Eclieveria metallica, surrounded by Pachypn>tam, and ed^jed with Echeveria secunda. they were completely excluded. In addition to the making of neat little panels, borders, edgings, and beds, they may be employed for forming carpets to act as a setting for larger subjects—a very pretty way of using them. Among the plants that have been much admired when seen in this way are a few that are not hardy, notably so Echeveria metallica and Pachyphytum bracteosum, the first very effective from its large leaves of a metallic lustre, the second pretty and curious. These require greenhouse treatment in winter, and where the first is scarce, and the plants small, they will be all the better of passing their first winters in a dry and warm house. Growing larger than most succulents used in this way, it is valuable for using as a central object among the smaller kinds.

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