Front matter
Reading edition
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.
A nearly buried boulder is easily converted into a beautiful little rock garden. Fill in depressions with soil and plant there 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
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
FACING
PAGE
An Outcropping Boulder Converted into a Rock Garden Frontispiece
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