80 SATURDAY IN MY GARDEN 



Armeria (Alpine thrift). 



Aubrietia (early flowering). 



Arabis (useful for dry crevices). 



Alyssum (masses of colour). 



Arenaria (sand wort). 



Coronilla iberica (pea-flowering rock plant). 



In addition there are many trailing and creeping plants such as 

 vinca (periwinkle), veronica and gypsophila, and dwarf shrubs 

 like erica (heaths), menziesia (Irish heather), genista (small- 

 growing brooms), cotoneaster and spiraea, which can be added to 

 the collection as desired. 



If the construction of the rockery be taken in hand during the 

 autumn and winter all will be in readiness for planting by March. 

 The plants can be obtained from the florist in small pots, and 

 the work of transferring them to their new home will thus be 

 facilitated. Care must be taken to plant firmly. 



The established rockery can be induced to provide a pretty 

 display of bloom almost all the year round if recourse be had to 

 some of the rarer species of bulbous plants which help to make 

 the garden gay in spring and summer. 



Most amateur gardeners cultivate a few at any rate of the 

 commoner kinds of bulbs. The hyacinth, the tulip, the daffodil, 

 the crocus, and the snowdrop find a place in almost every small 

 garden. These are all easily grown. They are cheap, and they 

 lend themselves readily to the production of fine broad masses 

 of colour in the open garden when April and May come round. 



But there are dozens of other varieties of bulbs and hardy 

 tuberous-rooted plants not less cheap, and certainly not less 

 beautiful, that the amateur neglects year after year. Possibly 

 he has never heard of many of them, or perhaps if he has seen their 

 names in the growers' bulb catalogues he has imagined that the 

 difficulties associated with their cultivation are in proportion to 

 the length of the names conferred upon them by botanists, and 

 to the extraordinary vocal contortions that are necessary in order 

 to pronounce the words aright. 



