MEANS TO THE END. 



seek to pursue, namely, to imitate, as nearly as 

 possible, the appearance and disposition of natural 

 rocks ; and, judging from the specimens we have 

 seen of this kind of rockery, the imitation of 

 Nature is very successfully effected. When- 

 ever possible, Nature herself is brought into 

 requisition by resort being had to the rocks which 

 are actually procurable in any locality where it 

 may be desired to construct a fernery. If no 

 stone can be quarried or otherwise obtained in 

 the neighbourhood of a proposed fernery, rockery 

 is artificially formed by an aggregation with the 

 aid of cement of burrs, rough bricks or concrete, 

 the colour of the cement which is used, not only 

 to bind but to cover the conglomerate mass, being 

 adapted to the actual colour of the natural rock 

 in the locality. By this system of building up 

 masses of conglomerate material it is, it will be 

 seen, comparatively easy to construct what will 

 have the appearance of huge masses of rock in 

 situations where it would either be impossible, or 

 a matter of the greatest possible difficulty, to in- 

 troduce actual masses of natural rock. In the 

 disposition of this Pulhamite rock art is brought 



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