THE WILD GARDEN 



situations, only single specimens of great size 

 are used. 



In this Connecticut garden, the rock-ledges 

 and boulders are treated as a part of the 

 garden as much as the trees or flowers them- 

 selves, and are objects of beauty. At the foot 

 of the boulders grow, in places, prostrate 

 junipers, native columbines and creeping 

 phlox. In crevices of the rock-ledge are many 

 ferns, columbines and velvety mosses, and 

 along the tops of the ledges grow bayberry 

 and huckleberry bushes. If a ledge has been 

 obscured by a tangle of briar, underbrush 

 and fallen limbs of trees, and the crevices of 

 the rock are full of leaves and debris, all are 

 cleared and brushed away, leaving only the 

 clinging evergreen fern and many varieties of 

 moss. In some niches, leaf-mold is placed, in 

 which tiny flowers of exquisite beauty soon 

 appear. 



These ledges of rock may be called not a 

 rock garden, but rather a garden of rocks. 

 Different conditions of the atmosphere mist, 



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