6o ROCK GARDENS 



on, ever gradually rising, through some tiny 

 gorge, then perhaps a rock-strewn valley, 

 bending its way round some lesser peaks of the 

 main hill, till at last the top is reached. Then 

 let this summit, while bold and conspicuous, 

 be no mere incongruous mass of piled-up 

 rocks. 



The object of a rock garden is to grow 

 plants, and the rocks are merely an adjunct, 

 though an important one, but still only the 

 means to an end. 



So unlimited is the scope for variety in a 

 garden of this sort, that space will not admit 

 of the enumeration of all its possibilities, so 

 much must be left to the reader's discretion. 

 Almost every type of garden thus far described 

 can be worked into it more or less ; the object 

 being to get the greatest variety of aspect and 

 formation. To him who is in want of ideas 

 there is no better teacher to go to than Nature. 

 There is, however, no need to travel all the 

 way to Switzerland. Let him but study the 

 rocks and hills at home, and on his return 

 try to reproduce the formation or scene on a 

 smaller scale in his garden. More ideas can 



