2 Making a Rock Garden 



for the most part America has confined its 

 rock garden vision principally to the so- 

 called " rockery." 



Now a rockery, with all the good inten- 

 tions lying behind it, is not a rock garden. 

 It is no more a rock garden than a line 

 of cedars planted in an exact circle would 

 be a wood. A rockery is generally a lot 

 of stones stuck in a pile of soil or, worse 

 yet, a circular array of stones filled in 

 with soil. 



A rock garden, above all else, is not 

 artificial; at least, so far as appearance 

 goes. It is a garden with rocks. The 

 rocks may be few or many, they may have 

 been disposed by nature or the hand of 

 man ; but always the effect is naturalistic, 

 if not actually natural. The rock gar- 

 den's one and only creed is nature. 



Rock gardens are of so many legitimate 

 in other words, natural types, that 



