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INTRODUCTION. 
My object in writing this little treatise is 
simply to explain the method of (1) Planting, 
(2) the soils, and (3) the positions required 
by some of the rarer Alpines, several of which 
have been found very difficult to grow in 
many places. 
Yet these plants are, for the most part, 
fairly easy of culture when proper soils and 
aspect are given. The account of such 
methods to be found in these pages will give 
much aid by diffusing a sound and practical 
knowledge of the requirements and manage- 
ment of rockeries. 
I will here give a few reasons why care as 
to mixtures of soils and drainage proves so 
beneficial to plant life. 
The reason I have so often alluded to 
drainage in this book perhaps needs a little 
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