The multiplication of dwarfs, and of minute dwarfs at that,
has made the annual a proper addition to the rock garden, which is apt to look a rather dreary patch when its spring glory is over. Again, many of the dwarfs are now used as edgings for beds of perennials and often save a bed from dullness when " flaming June " has quenched its fires. One of their advantages for the rock garden is that they can be grown when the gaps have already proclaimed themselves. The hardiest of all, and least rare. are among the best, to wit the Violet Cress and Alyssum minimum. They supply the place of a carpet in a room ; and good carpets are the ideal which at present a number of our chief specialists are pursuing. Someof them prophesy that in the garden of the future we shall permit little or no earth to be seen over the flowering months. Our rose gardens even will be carpeted with a low nap of ninny colours set in green.
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