In the Garden Votaries of the sort of garden that
may be called Rock t Alpine or Scree, or in one aspect Moraine, may claim certain superiority over other gardeners. They do much mot( travelling in search of the flowers that they cultivate, and tilt practice has in the past helped to make the periodical of th( Alpine Garden Society the very best thing, or most pleasim thing in garden literatures, if Curtis's Botanical Magazine b, excepted. The society organises trips every year to the haunt of so-called Alpine flowers. This year Corsica is included The island was once described to me (by Conrad) as posses, ing the most perfect climate in the world. It cannot compar, with Crete as a home for rare flowers, and is not likely t, prove as rich as were the Atlas Mountains, but the hig. central rocks make ideal rock gardens and may give hints ii the landscape of the rock garden which is as important a the flowers to the taste of many. In any case a holiday with an object is often the best of holidays, as the Alpinists are fond of maintaining. For myself, who am no Alpinist, nv: most vivid memory of a holiday near the Pyrenees is of th, patches of Lithospermum alongside tufted vetches and the virtual impossibility of eradicating the Lithospermum was an object lesson in its culture. The Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society is published from 71 Newman Street.
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