194 ROCK GARDENS 



habit, I planted in one of the choicer parts of 

 my garden a plant of Convolvulus althceoides^ a 

 very attractive plant in itself. In two months 

 it had made wonderful growth, clothing the 

 adjacent rocks with its creeping stems. My 

 suspicions having been aroused, I examined the 

 ground around, and about 4 feet from the parent 

 plant I found a sucker of it just appearing in the 

 middle of my best plant of Daphne Blagayana, 

 To get there it had to work its way behind 

 a rock weighing about a quarter of a ton. 

 Further investigations showed that it was 

 spreading in all directions, and had reached as 

 far as 5 feet from the original plant, which 

 was hastily banished to the wild garden. All 

 the rockwork had to be taken down in order 

 to thoroughly clean the ground. So that two 

 days' hard work was the result of a thoughtless 

 moment. Let this experience of mine be a 

 warning to the reader on no account to plant 

 anything, except in the wilder parts, that will 

 be likely to take possession of his garden. 



Leaving the rock plants, we will now deal 

 with the shrubs, the dwarf-growing kinds, 

 which can be mixed with the plants, or form a 



