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to gather [such together into a selected spot, bed, or ledge 
of the rockery, guarded and prepared with extra care. Con- 
trariwise, comparatively coarse beauties may be splendid when 
seen from afar, and care should be taken to put them at that 
distance from the passer-by, which will lend the needful en- 
chantment. 
In planting the ups and downs of a rock-garden it is gene- 
rally well to accentuate both, by planting carpeters in the 
■depressions, and subjects comparatively large on the hillocks. 
This point is commonly forgotten. 
Whether tallies should obtain in the rock-garden must, I 
think, remain a question of taste — or, rather, a question of taste 
and utility together. Evidently much is to be said on both 
■sides, as also for the medium course of tallying only those which^ 
on ground of rarity or of winter disappearance, really need it. 
Specially interesting bits in the rockery may be made in 
^several ways, as by collecting side by side for contrast many 
beautiful species of the same genus, or even many allied genera, 
or plants from the same habitat (especially if not elsewhere 
found), or plants of similar form (e.g. the crucifers) but in 
different colours, or even plants of the same colour but varying 
forms. 
And my last observation is, to enforce the recommendation 
that masses (if need be of comparatively few sorts) should generally 
be planted rather than but a plant or two of many. When once 
the right place for a plant has been found, plant there the whole 
available stock, and as nearly as may be in much such fashion 
as it would be found in nature. My ideal of a rock-garden is 
(as was once said of a famous wild garden) less a garden proper 
than a place where alpines and other rock-plants grow wild." 
For evident reasons I think that its occupants should be confined 
to natural species, or to hybrids but little removed from them, 
And that florist's flowers should find no place among them. 
Postscript. — At the request of the Secretary of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, I have made the following lists of rock 
shrubs and rock plants for publication in company with the 
foregoing notes. Needless to say, these lists are merely careful 
''selections," and in no scnso claim to be in anywise complete. 
