My Rock Garden 



two Caraganas, a fine specimen of the mop-headed Bladder 

 Senna, Colutea arborescens, var. bullata, Viburnum bullatum, 

 Hedera conglomerate and a spreading tree of the pink double 

 Cherry J. H. Veitch, form the forest of the slopes and 

 ridge, and in their shade Ramondias have made some fine 

 rosettes. Anemone nemorosa forms are happy in a level 

 bay, and other woodland things like Trillium grandiflomm 

 and Snowdrops as well as a clump of Lilium Marhan find a 

 home. 



We are now opposite an old ivy-covered summer-house, 

 that was here long before the rock garden was begun, and 

 tucked away under a fine old Thorn it is not too incon- 

 gruous to be left and utilised as a tool-shed and a refuge in 

 sudden storms. Opposite its door the main path turns down 

 the slope to the south, runs through the centre of the 

 triangle of rock garden and leads at the lower end to a 

 wooden bridge over a pool, and then through a meadow and 

 into the park, and as it forms the short cut between us and 

 my brother's house on the other side of the park it is a 

 rather wider path than is necessary in a rock garden. 

 Branch paths run right and left from it, and lead down into 

 two excavated hollows with high mounds to flank each of 

 them on all their sides, which mounds form the four some- 

 what parallel ranges of mountains that are the main portion 

 of the rock garden. We will take the left-hand path, and so 

 find a bank facing due south and a level bay at its feet full 

 of treasures, but we must only stop to notice a few of those 

 which are in flower now in May. Viola gracilis was first 

 revealed to me here. I got it from Sprenger of Naples several 

 years before it was generally discovered by English nursery- 

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