ROCKERIES AND ROCK GARDENS 
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A Picturesque Rockery 
To the left we illustrate a very pretty piece 
of rock-gardening on the grounds of Mr. 
Ellwanger. It is very happily placed on the 
edge of the lawn at the foot of the semi- 
wild wooded slope. The plants growing in 
this rockery are the tufted Phloxes, subulata, 
procumbens and amoena, popularly known as 
”Moss Pinks;” the hardy Candytufts, Iberis 
gibraltica and Iberis corraefolia, variegated 
Thyme, Arabis alpina. Hardy Alyssums 
Wiersbecki and Saxatile compacta, Lotus 
corniculatus. Cowslips and hardy Primulas, 
Saxifragas, Narcissus, Anemones, Hepaticas, 
Aquilegias, Helleborus, Bloodroot, Violets and 
other native flowers and ferns. 
necessary to provide drainage before constructing the rockery, 
for rock -loving plants do not thrive except in well -drained soil. 
Our space will not permit us to describe the many plants suit- 
able for a rockery or rock garden, but it may easily be filled 
with a great variety of beautiful flowering and uniquely decora- 
tive plants that are perfectly hardy. Among hardy and half- 
hardy sorts there are many rare and beautiful -flowering plants 
that thrive nowhere else as they do in the crevices of an ele- 
vated and well- drained rock garden. In the lowest or moisture- 
holding depressions bog plants may be grown. 
