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ALPINE FLOWERS 



[PART I. 



have no difficulty in finding many, even uglier and more unsuit- 

 able, in a few hours' walk near London. That such blemishes 

 are not confined to obscure places, where the light of modern 



What to Avoid. 

 Ground-plan of " Rockworks" recently made in a London Park. 



progress in these matters has not yet shone, is evident, as one 

 of the most absurd was sketched in one, of our greatest parks, 

 and another in one of the most popular of London public 

 gardens. 



No public garden should show anything in the way of rock 

 or alpine garden that is ugly or useless for its purpose. And 



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What to Avoid. 

 Sketched at Kew in 1872. 



this rule should particularly apply to botanic gardens. Better 

 far content ourselves with the good effects which we can get 

 from trees and shrubs, and flowers on the level ground, than add 

 to the hideous piles of rubbish that go by the name of " rock- 

 work " all over the country. And where these excrescences do 

 occur in public gardens, the right thing to do is to convey the 

 offensive pile to the rubbish-yard some time when the ground is 

 hard in winter. 



Lastly, among the illustrations of how not to do it, is the 



