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Title: The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden
Identifier: centurybookofgar00cook (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, The Offices of "Country life" (etc. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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152 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. but if the rock can be broken and the roots followed up they will be found, very possibly, to follow the fissure inward for a yard or more. In both of these cases the roots, following the line of least resistance to great depths, considering the size of the plants, remain always moist, while foliage and flower are permeated with the warm rays of the sun. This hint should be followed in our English rock gardens and the plants provided with deep crevices where they may enjoy similar conditions, and, where this is done, they will testify by their behaviour that such thoughtfulness is appreciated. Androsaces will pour from ledge to ledge a very cataract of bloom, Edelweiss will flourish as on its native mountains, and the little Campanulas bear their frail bells in profusion.
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A ROCK GARDEN IN SURREY Rock gardens should not be, as some of their constructors appear to imagine, gardens of rocks. The mission of the stone is, not to be the prominent feature, but merely to offer suitable root-run and protection for the plants. During the first year or so the stone will naturally be rather more in evidence than desirable, but if the planting has been carefully and systematically carried out, the main portion will soon be hidden beneath flower and foliage. Piling up rocks one above another, as if it were desired to make a stone-yard, is not the way to create a beautiful rock garden ; and though this evil has been pointed out by authorities upon the subject for many years past, this form of gardening, which may truly be called " rockery," is painfully common. No alpine meadow flowers can garland these dreary wastes of rock, put together without a thought of the plants that need deep pockets of soil or crevices for their far-reaching roots. Another evil is a combination of rockery and " rootery." A " rootery " may be artistic, if constructed with rare taste, but putting roots here and there in the rock garden is the best way to fill the whole place with objectionable fungoid growths. In a few years the roots commence to decay, fungi follows naturally, and the flowers sicken. Far

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