IRISH GARDENING 



VOLUME XV 



No. 175 



Editor— J- W. Besant 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND 



ARBORICULTURE IN IRELAND 



SEPTEMBER 

 1920 



Notes from my Rock Garden. 



" Time and tide wait for no man," and so 

 last month I had to close my notes just as I 

 was about to add a shoirt description of a paving 

 and flagstone scheme that suggests itself to 



is very valuable, and the shghtest touch in 



passing sends a delightful fragrance after one. 



Mentlia Requieni is doing most satisfactorily, 



spreading its tiny rootlets in all sorts of unex- 



Canals and Roads through the Nurseries at 

 Aalsmeer. p. lob. 



my mind's eye as a continuation of the stone- 

 work around the pond that is in the making. 



I hope to have the largest flagstones placed 

 in the centre of the paths that are to be 

 artistically but not too formally laid out. These 

 paths will join one already in being that goes 

 right through the rock garden, with informal 

 steps here and there. Thumus Jauguhiosa 

 spreads across the patli. This woolly Thyme 



pected places along the path. The vivid, close 

 careen, intensehj " peppermint," is most effec- 

 tive, and the tiny lilac blossom very interest- 

 ing- 



A carefully nurtured piece of white wild 



Thyme, transplanted from Donegal, is sending 

 its lovely wreath-like spi^ays also towards the 

 foot of "the passer by. This is perhaps the 

 choicest Thvme we have, as its tiny sprays 



