10 ALPINE FLOWERS [PART I. 



I have myself made visible throughout the country-side a 

 quarter of a mile of rocks, which were once hidden in the 

 underwood. 



Ascending Pathway in Rock Garden (Warley Place). 



As we see too clearly that the rock-gardens too commonly 

 made by those who profess to make them, are not based upon 

 observation of natural form, it is well to show all we can of the 

 way rocks come out of the earth, and of their structure and 

 often beauty of colour and form. 



PATHWAYS, ETC. 



No walk with regularly -trimmed edges of any kind should 

 pass through, or even come near, the rock-garden. This need 

 not prevent walks through or near it, as, by allowing the edges 

 of the walk to be a little free and stony, and by permitting 

 dwarf Stonecrops, Linaria alpina, and the lawn Eockfoils to crawl 

 into the walk at will, a good effect will arise. In every case 

 where walks pass through rock-gardens, a variety of little 

 plants should be placed at the sides, and allowed to crawl into 

 the walk in their own way. There is no surface whatever of 

 this kind that may not be thus planted: Violets, Ferns, and 

 Myosotis will answer for the moister and shadier parts, and the 

 Stonecrops, Eockfoils, Sandworts, and many others, will thrive 

 in more arid parts and in the full sun. The whole of the surface 



