30 TREATMENT OF SLOPING GROUNDS. 



tamariscifolia (all three known as the creeping juniper), 

 J. Sabina or savin juniper, Abies pectinata pendula, 

 (weeping silver fir), Pinus Cembra, Pinus Mugho, Met- 

 inospom obtusa, R. fllifem pendula, Sciadopitys verticillata, 

 the Japan parasol pine, rhododendrons, Azalea amcena, 

 Cotoneaster bnxifolia, Cratcegus or Cotoneaster pyracantha, 

 Kalmia latifolia (broad-leaved laurel), Berberis or Ma- 

 Itoiiia Aquifolium, and M. Japonicum. 



There are also a large number of hardy herbaceous 

 perennials that are peculiarly well suited to rockwork. 



A word, before closing this chapter, on the kind of rock- 

 treatment that generally passes for good work among garden- 

 ers. It generally consists of an irregular pile of stones, with a 

 little soil tucked in pockets here and there for the reception 

 of vines and flowers. The stones chosen are frequently 

 brought from a considerable distance in order to secure the 

 very quality they should not have, viz., that of strangeness 

 and unlikeness to the common rock seen at home. Flowers 

 and vines may, of course, be attractive in themselves, grow- 

 ing out of a pile of stones, but unrelated stones heaped up 

 in a mass, that is in no sense in key or harmony with the 

 rest of the landscape, have no excuse for their special arrange- 

 ment in a landscape-gardener's picture. 



It is to be regretted that landscape gardeners so often 

 fail to grasp the combined possibilities and proper relations 

 of the different features of the places they undertake to 

 treat. If they could only look upon their work in a large 

 and artistic manner, they would see that rocks planted in 

 the ground at the points where they would appear most 

 natural and most needed contribute to secure some of the 



