Part I. 



WILD ROCK-GARDEN IN WOOD. 



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Sweet- Williams Red ; Some with Beares-Foot ; And the like 

 Low Flowers, being withal Sweet, and Sightly." 



Where natural rock appears in only one spot, and we desire 

 to make the most of it, it is better to clear away any wood 

 or coarse undershrub that may surround it, so as to permit 

 the full development of alpine and rock plants ; but should it 

 crop up in more than one or in several positions in woods, it 

 would be better to leave at least one such spot as much shaded 

 with trees as possible, so that wood and copse plants and shade- 

 loving ferns might be therein fully developed. Such a spot 



Fig. 3g. — Site for rock-garden in wood. 



would form a very agreeable retreat in hot days. A few groups 

 of the noble-leaved Berberises in the way of B. nepalensis 

 woufd thrive admirably in peat near such a position ; in an 

 open, sunny, but sheltered, nook a wild arrangement of Cannas 

 and other sub-tropical plants would form a fine feature, while 

 various low wood shrubs, like the American Rubus nutkanus 

 and R. spectabilis would be seen to greater advantage running 

 wild near such positions than in any others. And so of a 

 number of interesting hardy grasses, herbs, and shrubs, and 

 dwarf wood plants like the Pyrolas. 



Hitherto, all the arran'^'cmfnts t-catecl of. whpt-he- b.'-Ei" or 



