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FIG. 371.: BOLD MASSES OF ROCK AND PLANTS. 



be persuaded to settle down 

 when quite young is amazing. 

 Not a chink in the rock\vork 

 but should be filled with 

 vegetation. Alpine primulas 

 make splendid crevice plants 

 for the cool side of the garden. 

 In all rock gardens, 

 whether great or small, the 

 keynote of success in planting, 

 as in building, is simplicity. 

 The majority of rock gardens 

 are mere botanical collections, 

 interesting but not beautiful. 

 If means are limited, fewer 

 kinds of plants may be acquired, 

 but many examples of those 

 kinds, or, better still, seedlings 

 may be raised and then planted 

 in bold masses. In a small 

 rock garden ambitious schemes, 

 unless they be faultless in every 

 detail, are doomed to failure. 

 An intelligent reproduction of 

 some corner which has struck 



FIG. 372. A JUDICIOUS USE OF COMPACT SHRUBS. 



