148 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



ROCK GARDENS 



A ROCK GARDEN, arranged with taste and 

 planted with discrimination, is decidedly a thing 

 of great beauty. Such plantings have been ex- 

 tremely popular for years past in England, and 

 today are much appreciated in America as well, 

 where they have gained rapidly in favor, every new 

 well-planted rock garden advertising the fact that 

 here is a real beauty spot, and one well worthy of 

 imitation or emulation. 



No one set form or type of rock garden is at 

 all essential; an adaptation of nature in keeping 

 with the surroundings is all that one aims for. 



The most common type of rock garden, and 

 probably the easiest to construct, is the mound 

 type, an irregular heap of stones and rocks, put 

 together roughly and with no idea of artificiality, 

 but trying insofar as possible to simulate nature. 



The interstices between the stones should be 

 filled with a gritty porous sort of soil and plants 

 suited to the purpose planted therein. Irregular 

 plantings of various sorts at the base of the 

 mound will add to the general effect. 



Another effective sort of planting may be had 

 where the lawn is terraced, and where several 

 cement steps lead from one elevation to another. 



