PLATE XL. 



GARDEN ROCKERY, NEDZU. 



This Plate is illustrative of an artificial rockery, constructed in the small 

 quardrangle of a suburban tea-house, and designed in imitation of the natural hollowed 

 rocks which abound in different parts of the scenery of the country. Beneath the 

 arch formed by the rock-work winds a little stream leading from the well-drain and 

 supplying a pool provided with a small fountain. Moss, litchen, grasses, small plants, 

 and dwarf evergreens are grown on the rockery, and a miniature stone pagoda 

 decorates the top of the arch. Such artificially constructed rockeries are not very 

 common in Japanese gardening, the preference being always given to single natural 

 stones of interesting shape; but, when occasionally introduced, they are designed in 

 imitation of some object in natural scenery, and in this respect they differ from 

 the meaningless and shapeless conglomerations of stone and slag employed under the 

 name of rockeries in European gardens. 



