| Show natures it seems 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 wastes of dreary swamp lands are brightened by the flame of the cardinal flower and the deep blue of the lo Jo balia belia while overhead nod the eat cat tails and the brue blue flags where the bare bam and ragged rocks jut out from the bill hillside side in ledges and bluffs nat nature re with IL lavish hand scatters her ber choicest flowers and trails her rarest vines flowers never seem so beautiful nor graceful as seen rocks whose cardnes hard nes and eold coldness ness they seem to defy who after on once seeing ngit it can ever forget the tha charm of the wild columbine that with airy bells fringes the clefts in the solid olid wall of the overhanging cliff or the wealth of ferns at its base it is this sharp contrast of strength and roughness with beauty and grace race that makes make 8 popular the ever present hicl hickory corY of our cities and suburbs and it should be remembered that the most important tau t point in arranging a rockery is to carry out the ideas of of nature where the graceful vines tine an and d plants are now to be admired in wild natural beauty philadelphia times |
