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worn and moss-grown, these qualities are good to have, 

 and yet good rock- work can be made without them. 

 There is a faculty whereby experience enables one to 

 select a very common-looking stone, and make it do ex- 

 cellent work in the landscape. Indeed, it is, perhaps, 

 easier to select a suitable stone than it is to place it 

 properly after you have selected it. When one feels, 

 as it were, the folds and shape of the land and the way 



BRIDGE OF BOULDERS 



the rock disposes itself in the neighborhood, it becomes 

 possible to set stones at right angles with the land, to 

 tilt them up, or to bed them lightly or deeply, as occa- 

 sion requires, and to generally group and mass them, 

 and combine them with grass and vines and shrubs 

 and trees, until a consistent picture is presented 

 wherein the forced note and unnatural quality have ab- 

 solutely disappeared. This may be done by means of 

 one great rock, or boulder, set at the base of a slope, 



