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THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
have a most delightful and interesting garden of hardy 
trees and shrubs alone. 
Rockeries. — No garden can be said to be complete 
without a rockery on which to grow those lovely alpine 
gems which come from mountain homes. But a rockery 
Fig. 4. A SUNK ROCKERY FORMED AND PLANTED. 
Note the paths of a winding character. The path may be formed of 
gravel or broken flag stones, the crevices between being planted with 
Thymes, Sedums, mossy Saxifrages, etc. 
to be a worthy feature of the garden must be constructed 
in a proper manner and of proper materials, and not, as 
previously mentioned, of clinkers, or burrs, or flints. Such 
erections are not worthy of the name of a rockery, nor are 
they adapted to the requirements of alpine plants. Burrs 
and clinkers are too porous, and flints too glaring and pro- 
