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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



One charm of this kind of wall garden is that little attention is 

 required afterwards. Even on the best rock gardens things get over- 

 run by others, and weeds come in ; but in a well-planted wall we may 

 leave plants for years untouched beyond pulling out any interloping 

 plant or weed that may happen to get in. So little soil, however, is 

 put with the plants that there is little chance of weeds. If the stones 

 were stuffed with much earth weeds would get in, and it is best to 

 have the merest dusting of soil with the roots, so as not to separate 

 the stones, but let each one rest firmly on the one beneath it. 



Androsace. Chaddlewood, Plympton. 



Among the things which do well in this way almost the whole of 

 the beautiful rock and alpine flowers may be trusted, such things as 

 Arabis, Aubrietia, and Iberis being among the easiest to grow ; but 

 as these can be grown without walls it is hardly worth while to put 

 them there, pretty as some of the newer forms of the Aubrietia are. 

 Between these stones is the very place for mountain Pinks, which 

 thrive better there than on level ground ; the dwarf alpine Harebells, 

 while the alpine Wallflowers and creeping rock plants, like the Toad 

 Flax (Linaria), and the Spanish Erinus, are quite at home there. 



