MAKING A
ROCK GARDEN

It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of littlevolumes, of which Making a Rock Garden is one, a complete library ofauthoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activitiesof the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagramswill, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear thepossibility of having, and the means of having, some of the moreimportant features of a modern country or suburban home. Among thetitles already issued or planned for early publication are thefollowing: Making a Rose Garden; Making a Lawn; Making a TennisCourt; Making a Fireplace; Making Paths and Driveways; Making aPoultry House; Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe; MakingBuilt-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats; Making a Garden to Bloom ThisYear; Making a Water Garden; Making a Garden of Perennials; Makingthe Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery; Making a Naturalized BulbGarden; with others to be announced later.

A nearly buried boulder is easily converted into abeautiful little rock garden. Fill in depressions with soil and plantthere and around the edges of the boulder Phlox subulata, sedum, arabis, etc.

MAKING A
ROCK GARDEN

By H. S. ADAMS

NEW YORK
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1912

Copyright, 1912, by
McBRIDE, NAST & CO.

Published May, 1912

CONTENTS

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• 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

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