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Thymes, too, are always available ; likewise 

 potentillas, erysimums, and veronicas, though 

 these last may seem to be trenching upon the 

 rock -plant region. Then, if we want larger 

 growths, are there not all the megaseas, which 

 may be torn in pieces two or three times a year, 

 if we like ? Of low-growing shrubs, such as 

 Euonymus radicans, the various creeping coton- 

 easters, the savin, Gaultheria shallon, and others, 

 there is no lack. Yet another, and one of the 

 best of them all, Cornus canadensis, a true shrub, 

 and an evergreen one, although no larger than 

 a wild wood-strawberry. 



But I find myself growing breathless, and the 

 list of such kindly " carpeters " is in reality only 

 begun. Flinging down woodruffs, wild pansies, 

 foam -flowers, sedums, mossy saxifrages, wald- 

 steinias, and periwinkles, as one might out of 

 a basket, I will only now delay to find room for 

 a few rock-pinks, particularly for these four 

 csius, cruentus, atro-rubens, and deltoides, all 

 of which may be sown broadcast in the spring, 

 and all of which, especially the last, may be 

 trusted to hold their own against any but the 

 biggest and most ferocious of natives. 



We have been honest caterers for our clients, 

 as far as preparation went, and my hope, I may 

 say my ideal, is that they will henceforward be 

 content with receiving merely surface nourish- 

 ment from time to time, and will neither look for 



