ROCK GARDENS 



thev would only distract the at*;i 

 garden the primary object E% e 



For 

 o£ rock 

 plmt 



I. p to th s point reference ha 

 part to 1 tincth alpine i lantb 

 confa e 1 e\ 1 vel t tl h 

 the tie I 



ROCK GARDENS 1541 



be artificial in the sense of made by man, because 

 tevs* leu contain a nat iial bank 01 lope upon which 

 o e mi^ht be eon^tructe 1 In any ca e t 1 il 1 1 e 

 chiracteuzed by simphcitj an! natui 1 I f t 



no 1 art ot a gar len has the gardener 

 to give expression to h s natuial ta t 

 strut-tiou and plant ng of a roolerv 1 



A rock garden or rockery 

 tion (though of necess t i 

 wav) of a nat iril rockv slopi 

 mo inta n s le b t u 1 



WArr EN 11 M iNMNL. 



i or should be an imita 



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k plants n 

 the special 



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tract ve by the plant ng of a large variety of alpine 

 and other plants. The meaningless mounds of stones 

 too often seen in gardens, planted with summer-bed- 

 ding plants or vines, do not represent the true concep- 

 tion of a rockery. A rockery must of necessity often 



deepei recesses ot the rockeiv were to be found the 



