. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. WILD ROCK-GARDEN IN WOOD. 53 Sweet-Williams Red ; Some with Beares-Foot; And the like Low Flowers, being withal Sweet, and ; Where natural rock appears in only one spot, and we desire to make the most of it, it is better to clear away any wood or coarse undershrub that may surround it, so as to permit the full development of alpine and rock plants ; but should it crop up in more than one or in several positions in woods, it would be better to leave at least one such spot as much shaded with trees as possible, so that
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. WILD ROCK-GARDEN IN WOOD. 53 Sweet-Williams Red ; Some with Beares-Foot; And the like Low Flowers, being withal Sweet, and ; Where natural rock appears in only one spot, and we desire to make the most of it, it is better to clear away any wood or coarse undershrub that may surround it, so as to permit the full development of alpine and rock plants ; but should it crop up in more than one or in several positions in woods, it would be better to leave at least one such spot as much shaded with trees as possible, so that wood and copse plants and shade- loving ferns might be therein fully developed. Such a spot. Fig. 3g.—Site for rock-garden in wood. would form a very agreeable retreat in hot days. A few groups of the noble-leaved Berberises in the way of B. nepalensis woufd thrive admirably in peat near such a position ; in an open, sunny, but sheltered, nook a wild arrangement of Cannas and other sub-tropical plants would form a fine feature, while various low wood shrubs, like the American Rubus nutkanus and R. spectabilis would be seen to greater advantage running wild near such positions than in any others. And so of a number of interesting hardy grasses, herbs, and shrubs, and dwarf wood plants like the Pyrolas. Hitherto, all the arran'^'cmfnts t-catecl of. whpt-he- b.'-Ei" or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London : J. Murray
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