GARDENS OF MANY KINDS 13 



When termed a moraine garden, a miniature slope 

 of fine stones is made for alpine dwarfs that do 

 not thrive well in pockets of soil. Broadly speak- 

 ing, a rock garden is a semblance of nature, which 

 may be no more than the mere planting of native 

 flowers by existing rocks. One great advantage of 

 it is that it need be only a yard square and still 

 be what it pretends to be; there are many tiny 

 ones in England. And it can be entrancingly 

 beautiful without the employment of any plants 

 but some of the "iron-clad" perennials. 



A wall garden is not to be confused with a 

 walled garden. It is any wall in the crevices of 

 which are grown appropriate plants. The mortar 

 may be knocked out here and there in an old wall, 

 but it is better to make a dry -one that is to 

 say, one in which the crevices are filled with earth 

 for planting. It is a large or small undertaking, 

 according to desire and circumstance; nothing could 

 be simpler than a simple one. 



The water garden is a sufficiently expansive 

 term to cover plants that like "wet feet" as well 

 as those that actually grow in the water; for that 

 matter it may be made up of either, the water 

 being the essential thing. As for pretentiousness, 

 a tub of water sunk in the ground and a single 

 water lily growing in it, with a bit of perennial 

 forget-me-not flourishing in the adjacent moist soil, 

 is a water garden that is not to be sneered at; the 

 birds will tell you that by their actions, if they 

 cannot in so many words. 



