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and to the more experienced owners of rock 

 gardens. Grateful acknowledgments must also 

 be made to Mr F. W. Moore and Mrs 

 Delves - Broughton, who have so graciously 

 given me photographs, and to the Editor of 

 the Ladies' Field for kind permission to 

 reproduce some of them. 



LEWIS B. MEREDITH, 



Graigueconna, 

 Bray, Co. Wicklow. 



