36 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
a thing it is to make an attractive mass-plantation. One may 
- make the most of a rock (Fig. 26) or bank, or other undesirable 
feature of the place. Dig up the ground and make it rich, and 
then set plants init. You will not get it to suit you the first 
year, and perhaps not the second or the third; you can always 
pull out plants and put more in. I should not want a lawn- 
garden so perfect that I could not change it in some char- 
acter each year; I should lose interest in it. 
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26. Making the most of a rock. 
It must not be understood that I am speaking only for mixed 
borders. On the contrary, it is much better in most cases that 
each border or bed be dominated by the expression of one kind 
of flower or bush. In one place a person may desire a wild aster 
effect, or a petunia effect, or a larkspur effect, or a rhododendron 
effect; or it may be desirable to run heavily to strong foliage 
effects in one direction and to light flower effects in another. 
The mixed border is rather more a flower-garden idea than a 
landscape idea; when it shall be desirable to emphasize the one 
and when the other, cannot be set down in a book. 
