The Choice of a Site 7 



house is on a rocky site that makes such 

 planting desirable, if not imperative, and 

 a slope from the rear or one side of a 

 house that seems decided enough to per- 

 mit of a sharp break in the general land- 

 scape treatment. Save in these circum- 

 stances, it is better that it should not be 

 in sight of the house. This is not so 

 hard as it sounds ; even on a small place, 

 the spot is easily concealed by a planting 

 of shrubbery. 



Nor should the rock garden, any more 

 than the rockery, be in the lawn unless it 

 is depressed and therefore out of sight, 

 or mainly so, from the level. The depres- 

 sion may be a natural or an artificial one, 

 it may be a brook with high banks or it 

 may be a sunken pathway. The edge of 

 a lawn is better, a corner of it is better 

 yet, and preferable to either is a bank 

 sloping down from it. The bank on either 



