4 Making a Rock Garden 



Coliseum and the ruins of Kenilworth 

 Castle are only two of the unnumbered 

 examples of this. 



Here, in a nutshell, are not only the 

 natural variations of the rock garden, but 

 the inspiration. No rock garden worthy 

 of the name has ever been created by man 

 that did not depend upon a study of those 

 that nature has given the world in prodi- 

 gal abundance. There were the why and 

 the how of it all, and man simply saw and 

 made use of his observations. 



The advantages of a rock garden are, 

 primarily, an element of picturesqueness 

 that nothing else can provide, and the pos- 

 session of a place in which can be grown 

 some of the loveliest flowers on earth that, 

 if they flourish at all, will never do as 

 well in the ordinary garden as in condi- 

 tions more or less approximating their 

 natural habitat. Also it may be made a 



