PART I.] 



CULTURAL 



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" I find it most convenient to grow the smaller and choicer 

 plants in a separate part, where they can be more carefully 

 tended. In another part I grow the stronger sorts which can 

 hold their own, and this part I allow to be overrun by red and 

 white wild Thyme, under which a number of small bulbs 

 several species of Anemones, Campanulas, and many other 

 sorts are quite happy. 



" A few large weathered stones, judiciously placed, look well, 

 and are often of advantage in giving a plant the aspect that 

 suits it. It is usually recommended that such stones should 

 be half buried, and no doubt many plants like to spread their 

 roots down the side of a stone. On the other hand, this is just 

 where some aggressive weed will run underground, and it often 



Part of Rock-Garden on level ground at Emmets, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent. 



