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Garden Work 
The above is only a small number of very pretty border 
plants, but should be sufficient as a representative selection 
for a work of this kind. 
ROCKERY AND ROCK PLANTS 
Where there is room in the garden there should always 
be a rockery, for the cultivation of some of those lovely 
little Alpine plants that cannot be successfully grown in 
any other way. It need not be large, but in keeping with 
the rest of the garden. If the garden is not more than ten 
poles, the rockery need not be more than two or three 
square yards. Here many of those striking gems, which 
look so exquisite in their natural habitat — the crevices of 
rocks on the mountain sides — may be successfully grown. 
If the garden is larger, the rockery may be in proportion, 
until in the very large grounds surrounding country man- 
sions we may have quite miniature Alps, where fine collec- 
tions of the numerous Alpine plants may be reared. Every 
advantage of natural beauty should be taken in forming a 
rockery, as here Nature is being imitated. 
The size of the stones should vary with the size of the 
rockery, as large stones would look out of proportion in 
a small rockery, and vice versa. On a large scale, where 
the ground is naturally very uneven, it is not a difficult 
matter to form a rockery, whereas, in a smaller garden, 
where there are no natural advantages, it is there that 
one’s ingenuity is taxed, to give such work the natural 
appearance which is indispensable to its success. 
We will assume that the garden is a small one, and 
is quite flat. Having secured the site — one that will be 
exposed to as much sunshine as possible, for this is neces- 
