GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA 



THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



Devoted to the Science of Floriculture and Horticulture. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS. 



Devoted to Park Development and Recreational Tacilities. 



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IL■L^^ I'M, 



Rock Gardens and Rockeries 



By Arthur Smith, Pennsylvania. 



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Slowly perhaps, but none the less surely, gardening 

 with hardy plants is becoming the rule, to the exclu- 

 sion of the unnattiral, and therefore inartistic, bedding- 

 out system. That the latter has existed so long is due 

 in a great measure to the fact that professional garden- 

 ers with expert knowledge of hard}' plants are in the 

 minority, and also because so many landscape archi- 

 tects, so called, rarelv make provision for hardy 



plants, other than shruljs, in their plans, as tlieir 

 knowledge of them is generally even less than that of the 

 average gardener. 



When people begin to see the artistic results pro- 

 duced by gardening with hardy plants, the effects of 

 the ever-changing variety for the greater part of the 

 year and the boundless possibilities connected with the 

 svstem, thev desire to bring into their gardens some 



PORTION OF ROCK GARDEN. ADTOIMM. THK CONSICKVATORY, U. S. BOTANIC GARDKN, WA.SHINGTON, D. C. GEORGE W. HESS, 

 SUPERINTENDENT. THE ACACIA .H'NI HRISSUNA (HARDY ACACIA) SEEN IN THE B.XCKGROUND WAS PLANTED BV 



GENERAL U. S. GRANT. 



