"RARE AND CHEAP ALPINES."
[TO THE EDITOR 0/ TEE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I beg to let you know that I am still selling plants for rock or wild garden or border for the benefit of St. John Ambulance County Corps or Brigades. I venture to enclose a photograph of two of my County Corps in uniforms. The funds for putting these good people into uniform I am raising from the sale of my "rare and cheap Alpines." I can send by list, but I can also send, for a specified sum (I find these orders very popular), a collection for a rock garden for 5s., 10s., 15s., £1, to £2. I send very liberally and a very good selection, comprising a great many varieties. I also am selling a superb new cerise hybrid dianthus, Wenlock Delight, at 5s. each; a beautiful salmon saxifrage, Wenlock Best of All, at 5s. each ; and a very beautiful scarlet dianthus, Caesar's Mantle, at 2s. 6d. each. These plants arc unique and most lovely, and some of the leading nursery- men have promised to show these plants for me, to bring them under the notice of horticulturists. I beg also to say that the Director at Kew has promised to give me a place on the Kew rock garden, so that the general public may see them and appreciate their beauty. If you will be so kind as to make these facts known for me by the medium of your paper, I shall be most grateful.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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