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 that We Made 



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Gypsophila in 

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particular favourites of mine : Gypsophila repens, with pink 

 and white blossom ; speedwell, which spreads over the 

 ground ; Gentiana acaulis, that wonderful, pretty little blue 

 alpine flower ; all kinds of Hypericum (the Rose of Sharon 

 and St. John's Wort family), of which there are many 

 different varieties, tall and short, some creeping along the 

 ground, covering it completely with little yellow blossoms as 

 soon as ever the sun shines a little — as, for instance, Hyperi- 

 cum polyphyllum, and the creeping Hypericum reptans. 



Other particular favourites of mine are Incarvillea 

 delavayi, with rose-red bugle-shaped blooms and big leaves 

 (it looks particularly well in a rock-garden) ; many and 

 various kinds of campanula, with their demure little blue- 

 and-whlte bells ; the common spiraea, often seen Indoors in 

 Sweden, can easily be transplanted to a shady spot once it 

 has attained some strength and maturity. It should, 

 however, always have sufficiently moist soil. Then one 

 can rejoice, every spring, In the tiny red shoots amongst 

 the stones, for splra;a is so hardy that, even in a northern 

 clime, it can stand the wintry cold without needing to be 

 covered over. 



Azaleas and rhododendrons should not be forgotten. 

 Their proper place is on the crest of the rockery. No 

 shrubs are so radiantly beautiful when In bloom as these 

 two last mentioned. And the azaleas are an orna- 

 ment also in the autumn, 

 when the leaves are 

 almost as pretty as the 

 flowers were In the sum- 

 mery June. As regards 

 rhododendrons, their 

 leaves look well all the 

 year round. 



Perennials should 

 Predominate. 



One would prefer to 

 employ perennials chiefly 

 in one's rockeries ; but 



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