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CHICAGO, OCTOBER 15, 1895. 



Single Copy 



CENTS. '^''* 75- 



MH, ELLWANGERS ROOK GARDEN. AT ROCHESTER. 



Landscape Gardening. 



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A rockery or rock garden does not con- 

 sist of a pile of stones and earth set up in 

 some meaningless spot in the garden to 

 be filled with all manner of plants. There 

 should be a reason for it. This may be to 

 provide a home where a certain class of 

 plants can be grown and displayed to the 

 best advantage; or it maybe a special 

 ornamentation in the garden. But the 

 rock garden should never be stuck out in 

 the open lawn and full sunshine, or in 

 any other isolated prominent place. 



Our illustration, engraved from a pho- 

 tograph, shows a very pretty example of 

 a rock garden in its floral glory in spring; 

 it is built against the bank of a spur of 



woods. Mr. George H Ellwanger writes 

 us about it as follows: 



"My father's rock garden has been 

 planted with reference to spring and early 

 summer flowering; our climate is so drj' 

 and hot in summer that it is quite a task 

 to hold a good succession of bloom. The 

 rocks are of limestone, honeycombed and 

 mellowed Ijv age, and form a most natural 

 and pleasing finish to the base of a fairly 

 wooded hill. The rock garden faces the 

 east and receives the full morning sun, 

 but is shaded most of the afternoon. 

 Here are splendid cushions of Phlox 

 amnona, P. procumbens. P. subulata and 

 its white variety; Iberis correaefolia and 

 /. (iibraltarica: thyme, arabis, Lotus 

 corniculatus, and other trailing plants, 

 with saxifrages, primroses, narcissi, trill- 

 iums, Iceland poppies, anemones, colum- 

 bines, campanulas, Christmas roses, 

 yuccas. Daphne Cneorum, and numerous 



native ferns and wildling flowers, as hepa- 

 tica, foam-flower, spring beauty, blood- 

 root, violets, polvgala and lady-slippers. 

 The mass of bloomthatshowsmostin the 

 illustration is that of Phlox subulata 

 alba and some subulata (moss-pink), and 

 the hardy evergreen candytufts. At the 

 base of the rock-work forget-me-nots and 

 pansies show. Earlier, in their stead, the 

 chionodoxa and Siberian squill were first 

 to push above ground, succeeded by vari- 

 ous daffodils and narcissi, these ' bulbs 

 being left in the ground. Hyacinths and 

 tulips also occur in it. Most of the 

 sedums are excluded, as they quickly 

 become a pest. The same applies to the 

 pretty little km.Cystopterisbulbifera. as 

 well as to the common moneywort, Lysi- 

 machia Nummularia." 



Now that you see a very beautiful ex- 

 ample of a rock garden, from life, don't 

 jump to the conclusion that you can 



