. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . n fancy and well bred varie-ties are better when absent. We refer todressy varieties as the Mme. Chereau GermanIris or, in fact, anythingof this sort. It is well togrow in the rockery theinteresting little plantswhich need special at-tention to be seen prop-erly. Bulbs are , Narcissus,Scillas, Fritillarias, andCrocuses are all quitenecessary. Large trees shouldbe avoided and sometrees esp
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . n fancy and well bred varie-ties are better when absent. We refer todressy varieties as the Mme. Chereau GermanIris or, in fact, anythingof this sort. It is well togrow in the rockery theinteresting little plantswhich need special at-tention to be seen prop-erly. Bulbs are , Narcissus,Scillas, Fritillarias, andCrocuses are all quitenecessary. Large trees shouldbe avoided and sometrees especially; for example. Hawthorns and Elms require much waterand should never be planted. The smaller evergreens, Junipers, ArborVitaes, broad-leaved evergreens, Yucca and Cacti are excellent. If the rock area is extensive and a very quick result is wished, theuse of annuals is excellent. Dr. Southwick has used annuals mosteffectively in his Garden of the Heart in Central Park, N. Y. Theotherwise objectionable colors of Petunia are there very erinus is indispensable. California Poppies, either the golden,the crimson or the white ones, are very pretty. Babys Breath ^Gyp-. Diagram to show, in a general way, the placingof the boulders or large stones in the making ofrock garden. A shelving arrangement is adopted,leaving spaces, called pockets, between the should be arranged so as to catch the the same time the water must pass readily awaythrough drainage channels THE ROCK GARDEN 159 sophila muralis, the pink, or elegans, the white) adds a graceful ornamental grasses look well combined in various places with thevarious blooming perennials. The annual Larkspurs and Lupinesare both good blue subjects. Portulacas, SanvitaUas, Bouncing Bet(Saponaria ocymoides) and Nemophila are of just the proper habit
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