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MAKING A ROCK GARDEN

THE HOUSE & GARDEN MAKING BOOKS

It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of little volumes, of which Making a Rock Garden is one, a complete library of authoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activities of the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagrams will, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear the possibility of having, and the means of having, some of the more important features of a modern country or suburban home. Among the titles already issued or planned for early publication are the following: Making a Rose Garden; Making a Lawn; Making a Tennis Court; Making a Fireplace; Making Paths and Driveways; Making a Poultry House; Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe; Making Built-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats; Making a Garden to Bloom This Year; Making a Water Garden; Making a Garden of Perennials; Making the Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery; Making a Naturalized Bulb Garden; with others to be announced later.

MAKING A ROCK GARDEN

By H. S. ADAMS

NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY MCBRIDE, NAST & CO.

Published May, 1912

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE ROCK GARDEN 1

THE CHOICE OF A SITE 6

THE WORK OF CONSTRUCTION 13

PLANTING THE GARDEN 24

PLANTS FOR A ROCK GARDEN 32

THE WALL GARDEN 45

WATER AND BOG GARDENS 50

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

AN OUTCROPPING BOULDER CONVERTED Frontispiece INTO A ROCK GARDEN FACING PAGE

A FLIGHT OF STEPS THROUGH ROCK WORK 8

AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD ROCK GARDENING 16

A SMALL BIT OF ROCK WORK WHERE TWO PATHS DIVERGE 26

FOAM FLOWER AND ONE OF THE SMALLER FERNS 34

THE ROCK GARDEN BUILT ALONG A MAIN CURVING PATH 42

A WALL GARDEN PLANTED IN COLONIES 46

A FOUNTAIN IN A WALL GARDEN 50

MAKING A ROCK GARDEN