CHAPTER XII 



SOME WAYS AND MEANS 



" No gardener has made experiments, however small, in the forma- 

 tion of a rock garden and the culture of Alpine plants without bringing 

 a new gladness to himself and others." — S. Reynolds Hole^ A Book 

 About the Garden. 



For such as wish to set about creating an Alpine 

 meadow, either as an attractive feature of their 

 pleasure-grounds or — which is more to the point 

 — as a completing part of their rock-garden, let 

 me at once say that this volume is no detailed 

 vade mecum, and that, for the cultural requirements 

 of the plants mentioned, recourse must be had to 

 the many good books already dealing with that 

 phase of the subject. All that is pretended here is 

 to point the way to a much-neglected path in 

 Alpine circumstance and to attempt to arouse the 

 necessary enthusiasm for its better and more just 

 appreciation, incidentally indicating what may be 

 novel in its aspect and untouched by Alpine- 



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