PREFACE 



A WORD of introduction seems needed to 

 explain the purpose of this book. No branch 

 of horticulture at the present time occupies 

 so much general attention as rock-gardening. 

 Yet not a single book deals with the subject of 

 the cost, which I have attempted to estimate, 

 basing it on my own practical experience. It 

 is superfluous to observe that I have not 

 aspired to any literary graces, but merely to 

 tell simply what I believe to be needed. 



My aim has been to provide a practical 

 volume which will enable anyone to make and 

 plant a rock garden. When making my own, 

 I know what I had to find out for myself, and 

 in the following pages my endeavour has been 

 M to save others the trouble. If I may occasion- 

 ■^ ally seem to repeat myself, it is because I wish 



