PART I. 



CULTURAL 



MOUNTAIN SHRUBS FOR THE ROCK-GARDEN. 



It might well be borne in mind that there is in Nature no 

 hard-and-fast line, like the little divisions we make for our con- 

 venience in books, and though the most alpine of plants are very 



Rhododendrons among natural rock at Howth, Co. Dublin. (Engraved from a 

 Photograph sent by Mr Geo. E. Low.) 



tiny evergreen herbs on all hilly and mountain ground, there is 

 yet much beauty of shrub life on the mountains, from that of the 



