302 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



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The Rock-Garden 



It is well to build a little unostentatious rock- 

 garden in some appropriate spot where a few flowers, 

 which you may not want in the beds, can grow. 

 Flowers that find a congenial home in a loosely ar- 

 ranged pile of rocks and turf are anemones, colum- 

 bines, thrift, thyme, rosemary, violets, buttercups, 

 harebells, ferns, fennel, ivy, myrtle, pansies, and 

 the ragged-robin (gentian). 



Select weather-worn stones and pile them care- 

 lessly one above another, placing some of them as 

 shelves. Leave plenty of room for the earth and 

 let your flowers grow as they please. 



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Flowers 



As I do not pretend to be a practical gardener, 

 having had no experience, I have culled these hints 

 from several authorities, including E. T. Cook's 

 "The Century Book of Gardening" (London, 

 19,01); Johnson's "Gardener's Dictionary and Cul- 

 tural Instructor," edited by Eraser and Hemsley 



