CHAPTER VI 



SPECIAL METHODS OF PLANTING ; AND THE USE OF 

 DWARF TREES 



WHEN referring to the formation of parts of the 

 Rock Garden, I mentioned that I would deal more in 

 detail with planting such subjects as Sax. longifolia, 

 Ramondias, etc., which require a more or less vertical 

 position. 



To take the case of my small plantation of Sax. 

 longifolia as an example. Knowing that they were all 

 the better for being planted on their side, and having 

 seen in other Alpine gardens how beautiful they looked 

 when so treated, I decided to make a suitable habitat for 

 them, and for this purpose built a somewhat steep 

 buttress-like promontory jutting out into one part 

 of the garden, the sides of which dropped abruptly to 

 the surrounding level, and facing south. This piece of 

 the rockery was composed of separate pieces of stone 

 placed in such a manner that when the joints were 

 filled in it would have the appearance of a more or 

 less uniform face of rock in which crevices existed. 

 I mention this point because it is almost a necessity 

 to use plants of at least one-and-a-half to two inches 



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