62 BOOK OF GARDEN PLANS 
On the plan each /etter means a group of several shrubs of that sort; 
each number, a mass of at least a dozen herbs as shown by the list. A 
detailed plan like this makes it possible to plant the garden by easy 
stages, year by year, especially if you wish to raise a part of your plants 
yourself from seed or division. Put the herbs in thickly for immediate 
effect; later, if the shrubs partly cover them, thin and plant elsewhere. A 
good carder laborer can clean off the weeds and loose rubbish in less than 
a week, and add good soil and the necessary stones and put in the plants 
that are ready; but the planting will not be finished the first year, for 
you will find that some of the herbs will prove failures under these condi- 
tions and must be replaced by others more suited to the location. 
Properly started, an annual weeding is all that the garden should 
require, unless some plants get too luxuriant and have to be restrained 
as are the weeds. How much better to the eye of the garden lover is 
such a planting than the usual tangle of Poison Ivy on the field ledge or 
even the velvet lawn that might have been built there! Smooth lawn and 
rock garden will each be the more satisfying for the presence of the other. 
THE ALL TOO COMMON ROCK PILE THAT IS SO OFTEN MIS- 
CALLED A ‘“‘ROCKERY” 
