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tion is to provide some corners on the reverse, 

 which are sheltered from midday sun, where your 

 shade- and damp-loving plants can revel in their 

 coolness ; but bear in mind that these are in the 

 minority in making a really pleasing rock-garden. 

 If your rocks can extend into one of those pretty, 

 roughly made stone walls, where you can have a 

 " wall-garden," you will have still more scope for 

 showing a blaze of beauty in the various Dianthuses, 

 Wallflowers, Campanulas, Helianthemums, etc. 



Much depends on the background, and you must 

 have plenty of green background, if your rock- 

 work is to be really effective ; with flowering 

 shrubs and small evergreen shrubs, and with 

 such a wealth of lovely things as you have to 

 select from in the nurserymen's catalogues, this 

 should be no very difficult matter. 



LIST I. 



PRACTICAL TREATMENT OF THE MOST USEFUL 

 PERENNIALS. 



If you are a beginner in the practical work of 

 gardening, you will wish to know how to grow 

 and increase the various groups of plants, although 



you may very likely know them well by sight 

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