THE FLORAL WORLD 



GARDEN GUIDE. 



JANUARY, 186 7. 



DESCEIPTION OF A EOCKERY AT STOKE NEWINGTON. 



TIE casual notice of my rockery which occurred in an 

 article on the Bracken in the Flosal Woeld of 

 October last, has brought many inquiries for detailed 

 information as to its appearance, structure, and uses. 

 In order to comply in a way likely to be useful, I have 

 had a perspective view and a ground plan prepared, and herewith 

 present them to our readers. Though a distinct and pleasing 

 feature of my very small garden, it is but proper to state that 

 it was originally constructed solely as a screen, to shut out from 

 view the lower part of the garden, where experimental operations 

 render privacy desirable, and where, moreover, there is nothing tor 

 people to see. The primary object of the proceeding has been fully 

 secured. The frame ground and plunging beds are screened from 

 inquisitive eyes, and there is less interruption of the work than 

 was the case once upon a time. But the ruin is a real embellishment, 

 and it aifords sites for a large number of interesting and beautiful 

 plants. One effect it produces, w4ii<;h is doubtless worth mention. 

 It gives to the garden at the point where it is seen in its full extent, 

 an appearance of expanding out to a great breadth, though it is no^ 

 wider here than anywhere else. This is owing to the number of 

 separate objects which present themselves in nearly an unbroken 

 line right across the garden, and as they are all connected and in 

 perfect harmony as parts of a rustic scene, the eye is pleased with 

 the variety and the expansion which are secured by the arrangement. 

 This rockery consists partly of banks faced with burrs, and 

 partly of artificial ruins. The entrance to the scene, at a, is by a 

 walk which divides right and left, leading one way to a summer- 

 house at c, another way to raised banks at d, and the principal walk 

 is also carried through the rockery, and then leads the way, u, to the 

 lower part of the ground, which this construction hides from view. 

 At E and r are parts of two large semicircles which abut upon the 

 front of the rockery ; at G is the bee-3hed„ the thatched roof of which 

 is a pleasing feature in the perspective view. 



It will be observed that the principal part of the rockery is a sort 

 of bastion with arches. The walk down passes through the bastion, 



