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Thymes, too, are always available; likewise 
potentillas, erysimums, and veronicas, though 
these last may seem to be trenching upon the 
rock-plant region. Then, if we want larger 
growths, are there not all the megaseas, which 
may be torn in pieces two or three times a year, 
if we like? Of low-growing shrubs, such as 
Euonymus radicans, the various creeping coton- 
easters, the savin, Gaultheria shallon, and others, 
there is no lack. Yet another, and one of the 
best of them all, Cornus canadensis, a true shrub, 
and an evergreen one, although no larger than 
a wild wood-strawberry. 
But I find myself growing breathless, and the 
list of such kindly “carpeters” is in reality only 
begun. Flinging down woodruffs, wild pansies, 
foam-flowers, sedums, mossy saxifrages, wald- 
steinias, and periwinkles, as one might out of 
a basket, I will only now delay to find room for 
a few rock-pinks, particularly for these four— 
cesius, cruentus, atro-rubens, and deltoides,—all 
of which may be sown broadcast in the spring, 
and all of which, especially the last, may be 
trusted to hold their own against any but the 
biggest and most ferocious of natives. 
We have been honest caterers for our clients, 
as far as preparation went, and my hope, I may 
say my ideal, is that they will henceforward be 
content with receiving merely surface nourish- 
ment from time to time, and will neither look for 
