Show natures it seema to be a law of nature that the rougher the material with which she has to do the more effort she puts forth to beautify it the of dreary swamp lands are brightened by the flame of the cardinal and the deep blue of the lobelia while overhead nod the cat and the blue flags where the bare and ragged rocks jut out from the hillside in ledges and bluffs nature with a lavish hand scatters her choicest flowers and trails her rarest vines flowena never seem so beautiful nor grateful as when seen in contract with rolph rocks whose hardness and coldness they seem to defy who after once seeing it can ever forget the charn of the wild columbine that with bairy bells fringes the clefts in ahe solid wall of the or the wealth of ferns at it is this sharp contrast of strength and roughness with beauty and grace that makes popular the ever present hickory of our cities and suburbs and it should be remembered that the most important point in arranging a successful rockery is to carry out the ideas of nature where the graceful vines and plants are now to be admired in wild natural beauty philadelphia Philadel phiL |