A Little Rock Garden 



fidelity to natural laws, and its aim is achieved. This 

 can be done equally well with a dozen stones as with a 

 thousand tons. In fact, three stones casually dis- 

 posed in an odd corner of the garden, lying, perchance, 

 in a bed of Heather, and sheltering in their well-worn 

 crevices the right vegetation, the plants that would 

 grow there naturally, can be more eloquent in their 

 appeal to our true sympathy with the beautiful in 

 Nature than a lavish expenditure on stone and labour 

 usually succeeds in being, where the aim is to have a 

 rock garden because it is fashionable, and for that 

 reason only. 



And this can be achieved in a garden of any size, 

 but it will not be by measuring off a square plot and 

 dumping a few loads of burr bricks and ancient con- 

 crete thereon, amongst which many plants will linger 

 on a miserable existence which is merely a procrastina- 

 tion of death. 



If the reader wishes to attempt something of the 

 nature I have described it will be best done in a corner 

 rather removed from the house, so that those more 

 formal lines that must of necessity remain in conjunc- 

 tion therewith may be gradually softened a little into 

 some more informal arrangement. I illustrate one 

 simple method whereby a delightfully realistic result 

 can be obtained. 



It consists in hollowing out an area just on the corner 

 of two paths, and descending by two or three shallow 

 rock steps into a miniature ravine. The earth so 

 removed is disposed irregularly on either side, and the 

 stone is made to appear as though it occurred natur- 

 ally on the site, but that a track had been made through 



