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The ornamental grasses look well combined in various places with 

 the various blooming perennials. The annual Larkspurs and Lupines 

 are both good blue subjects. Portulacas, Sanvitalias, Bouncing Bet 



This picture shows a closer, more intimate view of a rock garden. In this 



instance it is employed most fittingly as an ornamental feature between the 



inner flower garden and the outer semi-wild parts 



(Saponaria ocymoides) and Nemophila are of just the proper habit 

 for the rockery. Speaking of rock gardens in California, even as far 

 south as Los Angeles, a writer in a paper there says: "These rock 

 gardens are positively alluring, for if one but follows a bank having 

 a turn in direction of but a quarter circle he may find at one end the 

 Edelweiss of the European Alps, and at the other, through gradual tran- 

 sitional plant Zones, cacti from the desert sands. Next to the 

 alpines is often brought in fern dells with trickling streams and 

 waterfalls." 



(For perennials useful for rockery, see page 65.) 



