34 Making a Rock Garden 



realize, and often of an individual beauty 

 not always appreciated in the bewildering 

 profusion of the wild but plainly apparent 

 when an individual, or a little group, is 

 open to close study in a rock garden. Do 

 not make the rather common mistake of 

 thinking that they are too familiar to be 

 interesting; they are never likely to be. 

 And, honestly, can you say in your heart 

 that they are? 



For a Connecticut rock garden the 

 Greek valerian (Polemonium reptans) 

 must be purchased, unless a neighbor can 

 spare some from his collection of old-fash- 

 ioned flowers; there it belongs in that 

 category. But why should you of Min- 

 nesota or Missouri deny so beautiful a 

 flower a place in your rock garden, simply 

 because you have only to go to the woods 

 for it ? The English enthusiast brings * 

 home primroses from the Himalayas, gen- 



