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 Great Travels
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Hotels And Alpine: What does the word Switzerland summon to your mind as you pronounce it? Surely it summons thoughts of snow peaks tipped with the ruddy Alpengluh—dozens of peaks are 12,000 to 15,000 feet high—of funiculars, chairlifts and skilifts, of paddle wheels slapping crinkled lakes, of glaciers and waterfalls and edelweiss and yodlers and Alpine horns and the symphony of cowbells on upland meadows, and of hotels and Alpine inns by the hundred, many of them with open-air cafe and restaurant terraces that offer free views along with the refreshments.
Hotels are generally grouped in four main categories: commercial or transient hotels; resort hotels; residential hotels; and motels, or motor hotels. In the United States about 75% of the hotel rooms (excluding motels) are in commercial hotels, 16% in resort hotels (both summer and winter seasons), and the remaining 9% in residential hotels. About 80% of the American motel rooms are in commercial establishments and the remainder in resort motels.
The alpine poppy (Papaver nudicaule, P. alpinum, or P. Burseri) is one of those flowers that gives joy wherever it grows. It will easily self-sow without becoming a pest. The taproot is long so it does not transplant with ease. Blossoms are white, orange, yellow, or orange-red and have a sweet fragrance.
Every alpine garden should have a few phlox, and Phlox subulata 'Sneewichen', 3 by 9 inches, is one of the best. While many of its cousins have too-bright colors for a small garden, this one bears tiny, snow-white flowers.
Picea glauca 'Echiniformis', 7 by 9 inches, is another dwarf conifer that makes a fine focal point—albeit a small one—in the alpine bed.
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