THE WAYS OF THE WIND 5 



because he is apt to build an undigested rockery! 

 These sort of rockeries are wholly separate from the 

 rock gardens, often majestic, that nowadays supplement 

 a bit of natural rocky woodland, bringing it within the 

 garden pale. The awful rockery of the flat garden is 

 like unto a nest of prehistoric eggs that have been turned 

 to stone, from the interstices of which a few wan vines 

 and ferns protrude somewhat, suggesting the garnishing 

 for an omelet. 



Also, if you follow Nature and study her devices, you 

 will alone learn the ways of the winds and how to pre- 

 pare for them. Where does Spring set her first flag 

 of truce out in the windswept open ? 



No ! the arbutus and hepatica lie bedded not alone in 

 the fallen leaves of the forest but amid their own endur- 

 ing foliage. The skunk cabbage raises his hooded head 

 first in sheltered hollows. The marsh marigold lies in 

 the protection of bog tussocks and stream banks. The 

 first bloodroot is always found at the foot of some 

 natural windbreak, while the shad-bush, that ventures 

 farther afield and higher in air than any, is usually set 

 in a protecting hedge, like his golden forerunner the 

 spice-bush. 



If Nature looks to the ways of the wind when she 

 plants, why should not we? A bed of the hardiest 



