AN INTERESTING ILLINOIS GARDEN. 



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look down the gradually descending depths of the ra- 

 vine, with its wooded sides and overhanging boughs, to 

 its extreme end, some 200 feet distant. This is a most 

 charming view. At the base of the boulder breast- 

 work are planted, one on each side, two Populits Bol- 

 leana — Russian poplar — in hopes of having sometime 

 two white-coated sentinels standing guard. The rock 

 garden is about 275 feet from the house, and empha- 

 sizes the singular division of the southern end of my 

 lawn. The native trees and those planted are so 

 placed as to command from my porch an unobstructed 

 view of each " tongue " of lawn, of my charming lake 

 beyond the descending road, and of the rockery. This 

 rockery was made in imitation of some of nature's rock 

 gardens that I have seen in California. 



natural pocket in one stone, and in numerous cup-- 

 shaped depressions elsewhere on the stone, I placed- 

 earth, into which Sediim seinperzdvoides and kindred 

 plants were set. Among the rocks are planted Cryp- 

 tomeria elegans, Japanese golden dwarf thuya, Etiony-- 

 inus radicans variegatiis, common burning bush. Daphne 

 Cneorum, Rosa rtigosa alba, Mahonia aquifolmm, Doug- 

 las Thuya py!-amidalis, Douglas Tom Thumb arbor-vitse, 

 Douglas golden spreading juniper, creeping waukegan, 

 juniper, hawthorn, Ki<bus odoratus, Berberis Thunbe?'gii, 

 Serissa Japonica , Desniodium peiiduliJloru77i, Lonicera 

 atirea, Astilbc Japonica, Thymus citriodorus aureus, Am- 

 pelopsis Veitcliii, fern-leaved sumach, Lathyrus laiifolitis,. 

 L. I. alba, clematis Duchess of Edinburgh, thunbergia, 

 Cobaa scandens, Callirrohoe involucrata, climbing nas- 



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A Bed of Perennials at Egandale. 



The sod is carried up and through the rockery, the 

 point (21) being the highest place — probably three feet 

 from the general level of the lawn. On the east side, 

 at the beginning of the grass walk up and through the 

 rockery, is one flat boulder forming a stone step — the 

 top of which meets the sod — which gradually ascends 

 to the highest place, then descends to the lawn on the 

 west, and to the north through the center opening. 

 The narrowest part of this walk admits the lawn- 

 mower. 



The beds E E E are irregular in outline — broken up 

 and divided by boulders. I endeavored to have each 

 section show an individuality on close inspection. The 

 center bed of the rear or southerly group is bounded 

 by sandstone and the rest by granite boulders. In a 



turtium, Tropivohim Canariensis, Yucca filaiiientosa, 

 French canna, Eiilalia Japonica, common ribbon grass, 

 fuchsia, dwarf coxcomb, double dwarf nasturtium. 

 Geranium sanguineum, pelargonium, striped flag, 

 Gazania splendens, mesembryanthemum, one palm, Zea 

 Japonica, Echeveria iiwtatlica and sccunda glauca, sedum, 

 sempervivum, coleus, ricinus, calceolaria, torenia, lo- 

 belia, Hclia7ilhus m. pi., ferns, one tall choice petunia, 

 and two rabbit traps which have caught nothing ! 

 There has been a constant change in the beauty of this 

 rockery from week to week. Take it the year through, 

 the spot has been a mass of pleasing verdure. 



South of the rockery and some thirty feet away, the 

 sub-ravine has been spanned by a 'rustic bridge (22) 

 which widens in the center and contains seats enough 



