202 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



multiply, and throw a riot of colour over the banks 

 of stone, whether these latter follow a coherent 

 design or are placed in merely irregular array. The 

 mass of colour is indeed more often effective when 

 it surrounds a sunk garden of a roughly symmetrical 

 shape than when it is broken up into disordered 

 parts. The habit of mind which connects the rock 

 garden with a pile of stones, is apt to regard it as 

 a feature applicable to any position where it seems 

 to get over a difficulty or an odd corner. Let us 

 regard the rock garden seriously, and honour it by 

 giving it, as well as all other things in the garden, 

 a proper place, and let us face the difficulties of each 

 part of our plan courageously until we find the right 

 solution. Est locus in rebus should be our motto, 

 or as it might be written for us est locus in hortis ; 

 and if we make this our guiding principle, we 

 shall find our plan coherent and our garden truly 

 beautiful. 



