The Garden Magazine, September, 1921 



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Bordering the croquet lawn, at the base of a marked slope a retaining wall was put in to hold the soil. 

 This suggested the wall planting shown and a "table garden" where dwarf plants grow at convenient height 





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THE ROSE ARBOR 



Wide enough, sufficiently spaced around and 

 about, this treatment holds a lesson for many 



dening is so new that it is yet in its experimental 

 stage. Mr. Robinson insists "that a heap of 

 stones thrown together as a rock garden is one of 

 the fundamental errors to be discarded before prog- 

 ress can be made." The best rock gardens, after 

 all, are the natural road made ledges " asking for no 

 design or artifice, only planting." The importance 

 of the rock as a factor in providing suitable root 

 conditions is emphasized, wherefore the rock would 

 be better buried instead of being so much in evi- 

 dence as it usually is. Rank, vigorous growth in 

 our rock gardens is undesirable, a fault that is 

 brought about largely by the conventional thought 

 of making a rich soil since in nature these very 

 rock plants live in gritty soil, well drained, but 



never in their lives get a touch of such a thing as manure. The principle of 

 the fruit garden and the vegetable garden where the crops are cleared off 

 annually is quite another thing from that of the rock garden. "The ad- 

 miration for rotten manure and other rich soils, " which is referred to as 

 being typical of the gardener, worked detrimentally in the rock gardens of 

 England and is already having a like effect with us. May we be warned in 

 time! A further suggestion for the rock garden is planting with "dwarf 

 shrublets." 



Notwithstanding the fact that "Home Landscapes" is in essence an 

 English book, and so must be read intelligently by the American gardener 

 yet its breadth is such that it will be of real use. Mr. Robinson refers from 

 time to time to plants of the whole temperate zone, and his lessons in ap- 

 plication of the material are equally good on both sides of the Atlantic — 

 because they are fundamentally sound. 



To provide shelter this portico was added to the three hundred year 

 old residence from which to view the garden (to the left.) An atmos- 

 phere of age is acquired by growing Stonecrops, etc., in the roof tiles 



