How to manage a Garden 



the beauties of nature by giving every opportunity for the 

 plants to. succeed. Now it is quite possible to combine the 

 utmost ruggedness with great usefulness, but rather than 

 argue the point as an abstract question I would direct 

 readers to those places I have mentioned on page 73, where 

 they will see the possibilities and variations of rock-work in 

 all forms, and, moreover, observe the remarkable success of 

 the plants. 



How to Make It. 



The remarks which are now given are intended to apply 

 to small as well as to large rockeries. Now it is a pleasing 

 feature often, I am glad to say, seen in our suburban 

 gardens to have a small form of rockery skirting some of 

 the walks, especially when for some reasons the path is 

 lower than the surrounding ground. When built without 

 any regard to formality, and with the true interests of the 

 plants in view, there is every chance of it looking well, but 

 we sometimes see the stones piled up one on top of the 

 other without sufficient space being left for the plants, and 

 the general appearance is then not pleasing. Only recently 

 I saw bricks and stones piled up in this way and forming a 

 regular outline with the idea of making an ornamental feature 

 to the carriage drive; but whoever admires such an in- 

 artistic and useless arrangement must have small powers 

 of observation, or spare opportunities of exercising them. 

 This remark applies likewise to the making of rockeries 

 properly so called. We often see stones piled up so as to 

 give a globular appearance, and are like a heap of stones by 

 the wayside for the repair of the highway rather than a 



rockery. Of course there can be the other extreme, viz., 

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