Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 230
aves, and in thestill more penetrating briUiancy of its astounding blue.These little gems are not often seen at their best inEnglish gardens, but G. acaulis is a much more willingcolonist, and in some gardens where the soil is a richloam it grows rapidly and flowers abundantly andproves one of the… … THE ALPINE GARDEN 103 the upland Alpine pasture is that here the grassesgrow too rank and tall; the only ones thereforethat should be employed are the smallest of the wiry-leaved kinds, such as the short Sheeps Fescue withthe tufted base. A true Alpine garden, it should be understood, isa place…
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