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well expresses the way in which such work should be 

 done: 



"No burrs, clinkers, vitrified matter, portions of 

 old arches and pillars, broken-nosed statues, etc., 

 should ever be seen in a garden of alpine flowers. 

 Never let any part of the rock garden appear as if 

 it had been shot out of a cart. The rocks should all 

 have their bases buried in the ground, and the seams 

 should not be visible; wherever a vertical or oblique 

 seam occurs, it should be crammed with earth, and 

 the plants put in with the earth will quickly hide the 

 seam." 1 



All suggestion of artificiality of any kind should be 

 carefully avoided in using rocks in landscape gardening. 

 The least appearance of the hand of man is more in- 

 jurious to the charm of the place than it is anywhere 

 else in the landscape scheme. To imitate, or better to 

 simulate the natural surface of a meadow by grading 

 is difficult and is a work of art, the management and 

 disposition of trees and shrubs is not easy, but to place 

 rock work so that the presence of the mason is not 

 dominating, nor the careless method of the teamster 

 in dumping his load of stone, is the most difficult of all. 

 This latter form of dumping down rock is by some 

 wrongly deemed natural and well designed, provided 

 the interstices be filled with plants. 



Thomas Whately writes as follows on the same 

 subject: 



1 English Flower Garden, chapter xi., p. 144. 



