MORAINE GARDENING 67 



dry parts of the kingdom water beneath is desirable, 

 but it may, without doubt, be dispensed with. Such 

 a supply of water is often difficult, if not impossible, to 

 secure, and those who cannot arrange for it need have 

 no anxiety on that account. In its absence it becomes 

 necessary, of course, to water the moraine by means 

 of a watering-can, but the moisture clings so to the 

 broken stone that one canful here is probably more 

 helpful than ten on an ordinary border. 



Position of the Moraine. The choice of position 

 needs some consideration. One should endeavour to 

 place it as naturally as possible. Probably it is never 

 seen to better advantage than when filling the bed of 

 some miniature valley in the rock garden, as though 

 the stones had been brought down from higher places 

 by a mountain torrent or stream. But really so long as 

 the moraine forms part of the rock-garden design, and 

 does not stand out by itself as a thing apart, it will scarcely 

 be out of character. One should, however, remember its 

 place in Nature, and in its arrangement try to approx- 

 imate as closely as possible to that ideal, It is not 

 absolutely necessary to have the moraine on a slope, 

 though it is undoubtedly preferable, as having a more 

 natural appearance and providing better drainage. 

 Admitting this, one might appropriately enough have a 

 moraine on each side of the path that leads through the 

 rock garden, preferably where the ground slopes 

 right to the edge of the path, but even in flat places. 

 All that one has to do to ensure as 'great success 



