Alpines grow astonishingly well, and though a considerable percentage will die from the alternating damp fogs and frost in the winter, many will really establish themselves, and be quite at home, much nearer the heart of London than Dulwich, where many have been cultivated. "I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows" in London-not a green, mossy bank, but rather a blackened rockery; still the slope is really covered with large patches of wild thyme, purple with bloom in the summer, carefully marked by the London County Council "Thymus serpyllum," for the benefit of the inquiring. Several of the other thymes, which form good carpets, will also grow. Antennaria dioica, a British plant, forms a pretty silvery ground- work on beds or rockeries, and nothing seems to kill it. Saxifrages in great numbers are suitable, beginning with the well-known mossy green hypnoides, to the giant known as Megasia cordifolia, also sedums, semperviviums, aubrietias, phloxes, tiarella, dianthus in variety; and several other Alpines have succeeded in different parks and gardens, such as Androsace sarmentosa, Dryas octopetala, yellow fumitory, Cotoneaster frigida, the small ivy Hedera conglomerata, Achillea tormentosa, Lychnis Haageana, Linnï¾µa borealis, Azalea procumbens, Campanula garganica, only to mention some that have been noticed; even edelweiss has been successfully grown in the centre of London.
