HOW TO FORM ROCKERIES. ^^ 



recommended when the site to be dealt with is low, 

 as then it will probably be easy to introduce water. 

 This can be retained by puddling or concreting, in 

 which case Water Lilies can be grown. If the ground 

 is merely boggy, moisture-loving plants other than 

 real aquatics may be cultivated. 



Something approaching the ridge and bay system 

 may be seen in the rock garden at Kew, which has a 

 rather low site. Looking into a bay gives a pleasing 

 illusion of distance. It tends to fill the eye more 

 than a convex outline. 



The larger the area available, the deeper the bays 

 may be made, and the deeper the bays the longer the 

 ridges. Before ever a spadeful of soil is turned the 

 amateur may, if he likes, get an idea of the outHne of a 

 ridge-and-bay bed with the aid of a few pegs and 

 a length of clothes-Hne. 



Once upon a time boggy patches were regarded as 

 a nuisance in a garden, now they are seized upon with 

 joy. The old-time gardener, with his tender bedders, 

 did not know what to do with them, and generally left 

 them alone, to produce as choice an assortment of 

 docks, crowsfoot, and other weeds as they were capable 

 of producing ; the modern gardener, well furnished 

 with hardy plants, has no difficulty in turning a bog 

 into one of the most beautiful features of the place. 

 He sets lines of fiattish stones in it, so that it can be 

 crossed in comfort, and plants it with beautiful semi- 

 aquatic and moisture-loving things. 



Whatever plan of rockery-construction the flower- 

 lover chooses he will be wise to bear in mind that he 



