. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. THE ROCK GARDEN 121 will catch the moisture. Leave plenty of soil space between
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. THE ROCK GARDEN 121 will catch the moisture. Leave plenty of soil space between the rocks and plan Kttle pockets to catch the water. Ptovide drainage. by the use of a quantity of ashes or fine gravel in the center of the mound. The rocks get very hot and some plants may dry readily. If a little water can be provided it should be conducted to the top and allowed to seep down through the crevices. In Winter a protec- tion of straw and decayed manure over the plants will be beneficial. It is best riot to remove this protection too early. Neglect it a bit. Evergreen branches are excellent for those plants which do not die down each year. Matemal for Rock Garden. The rock garden is essentially a wild feature and a great deal of native material should be used. No variegated freak horticultural varieties should be in- troduced. Even fancy and well bred vEirieties are better when absent. We refer to the Mme. Ghereau German Iris or, in fact, anything dressy. It is well to grow in the rockery the interesting little plants which need special at- tention to be seen properly. Bulbs are excellent. Snowdrops, Narcissus, SciUas, Fritilleirias, and Crocuses are all quite necessary. Large trees should be avoided and some trees especially; for example, Hawthorns and Elms require much water and should never be planted. The smaller evergreens, Junipers, jU-borvitaes, broad-leaved evergreens, Yucca and Cacti are excellent. If the rock area is extensive and a very quick result i
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