CHAPTER X 
SELECTIONS OF PLANTS FOR VARIOUS 
PURPOSES 
OWEVER carefully one may describe plants in such 
chapters as the two immediately preceding this, 
there are frequent occasions when one desires some 
readily accessible reminder of plants that are particularly 
useful for certain situations, or for certain seasons of the 
year. With the object of making this book as useful 
as possible, I have compiled a few lists of plants that are 
suitable for particular purposes, and have also resorted 
to lists of a few kinds of plants that could not have been 
fully dealt with except by adding unduly to the extent 
and cost of the volume. 
Ferns are well suited for rock gardening, but to treat 
of ferns as I should wish to do, would necessitate the 
addition of several more chapters to the book, and that 
could not at present be permitted. Ferns are, in fact, 
fully entitled to and worthy of a separate volume, but 
in the meantime I can do no more than name a few of the 
most readily obtainable and easily grown species and 
varieties that are, at the same time, of sufficient beauty 
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