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Wild pentstemon. blackberry, and bunch grass on a 

 sunny ledge 



beautiful wildlings that anyone can grow for the 

 trouble of collecting. 



During June and July one of the prettiest and 

 most effective of the native wild flowers that adorns 

 the rocks and flourished there is the wild pent- 

 stemon {Pentstemon pubescens). It grows on the 

 drier ledges and does not seem to care particularly 

 whether it has any copious moisture at its roots 

 or not. Growing on the prairies it is a rather 

 straggling plant, the racemes being often two feet 

 tall. On the rocks, the inflorescence is compact and 

 rarely ever a foot in height. 



This hoary pentstemon, together with colum- 

 bines and the harebell (Campanula rotnndifolia) , 

 furnish the showiest of the rock plants of late May 



A typical Nature-planted rock garden along the 

 Illinois River 



and June along the Illinois rivers. Later come the 

 asters, and there is seldom a little ledge or crevice 

 that has not been preempted by some sort of an 

 aster. Occasionally a fringed gentian appears in a 

 shaded, moist nook, but, like the harebell, they are 

 usually found on a ledge below an outward bulge 

 of the rock and are inaccessible for photographs. 



The accompanying photographs show bits of 

 the natural rock gardens along the Illinois River. 



Illinois. Sherman R. Duff v. 



Growing Arabis from Cuttings 



ROCK cress (Arabis albida) grows so readily from 

 cuttings that I don't find it worth my while 

 to bother with seed. In the early summer I simply 

 pull off as many of the shoots as I want plants, 

 stick them into the ground up to the first leaves, 

 and see that they do not dry out. If pinched 

 back they will make stockier plants. By fall 

 they are well enough established to move into 

 the border. One such shoot will grow enough 

 in three years to cover about a square yard of 

 ground. — A. C. A. 



