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plants, or the humbler Alpine creepers, are festooned. The graceful yellow 

 broom, the double-flowering furze, and the hardy cistuses, may be planted: 

 among these rocks. The detached pieces of rock should, if possible, be blocks 

 of the real stone found in the neighbourhood. Attempts have sometimes been 

 made to imitate or make models of real Alpine scener}^, but with indifferent 

 success, as may be supposed. In this maimer, however. Lady Broughton chose 

 a model of the mountains of Savoy for imitation in the rockery at Hoole House. 

 With great trouble she succeeded in preserving the outline, imitating the liler 

 de Glace, in grey limestone, quartz, and felspar. After labom-ing for six years at 

 this rocky boundary to the flower-garden, it is described as an exquisite piece 

 of workmanship, completely covered with rare and beautiful Alpine plants, ex- 

 cept where snow, glaciers, and the pinnacles of rocks are present ; and these 

 two first are represented by glittering spar and white marble. Each plant is 

 placed in a bed of soil of suitable character, and protected by broken frag- 

 ments of stone, clean-washed gravel, moss, and other suitable materials ; 

 stones being selected for certain subjects, accoi'ding as they reflect or absorb 

 the heat. Among the plants which abound in this rocky bed are saxifrages, 

 cedums, rock pinks, anemones, myosotas, heaths, violas, Lychnis alpma, 

 campanulas, oxales, hepaticas, anagallas, cyclomens, calceolarias, dwarf 

 veronicas, — in short, every gem of the garden which will grow in such soila, 

 is to be found in this choice rockery. 



233. A valued correspondent sends us the following hints^ with which we ■ 

 conclude oui' remarks on Fountains : — '' Even where fountains are not attain- 

 able, tanks are not only useful, but may be made exceedingly ornamental,, 

 either in flower- or kitchen-garden. The position in the latter should be in 

 the centre of a broad grass walk lined with pear-trees and standard roses as 

 described above. It should be made with an asphalt composition, and 

 surrounded by rockwork covered with cedums and the different kinds of 

 saxifrage. In the flower-garden its position must be determined by circum- 

 stances. It forms a useful and beautiful centre to a hardy fernery ; and, if 

 near enough to the house, may frequently, at a very smaU expense, be pro- 

 vided with a fountain by means of a small gutta-percha tube in connection 

 ■with the cistern, which is supplied by the force-pump of the house. This tube 

 should be so managed as to be removable in winter, for fear of frost." 



