. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 3o8 MY GARDEN. the Central brook, where their blossoms light up the scene with their brilliant flowers. In these three alpine gardens hundreds of species are grown. Many, of the most surpassing beauty, are easily passed over and neglected unless sought out with an intelligent eye. It is seldom that I visit the alpineries without finding some new object of interest; and I observe that my visitors linger over these mounds with satis- faction, delight, and admiration. My a
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 3o8 MY GARDEN. the Central brook, where their blossoms light up the scene with their brilliant flowers. In these three alpine gardens hundreds of species are grown. Many, of the most surpassing beauty, are easily passed over and neglected unless sought out with an intelligent eye. It is seldom that I visit the alpineries without finding some new object of interest; and I observe that my visitors linger over these mounds with satis- faction, delight, and admiration. My alpineries are merely degenerate productions when compared with the glorious example constructed by Messrs. Backhouse of York in whose garden stones of many tons in weight are used, and where the whole design has the appearance of nature. They are, moreover, not to be compared with the beautiful rockeries which can be made where quartz spar can be procured. The Rev. W. Macpherson, of Monnymusk in the valley of the Don, in Scotland, has a pretty rockery made of selected stones. The Rev. Mr. Milne, in the same valley, has also another, formed of quartz spar, which, during a number of years, he has selected from the hills, and transferred to his garden at great labour and cost: these he has arranged as a rockery, on which alpine plants grow in all that luxuriance which a proper soil and a natural climate can alone Fig. 649.—Saxifraga 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 Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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