GARDEN DESIGN 29 



Yet Nature clothes the rock walls 

 with beautiful life, even to the snow 

 line, where the gems of the flower 

 world stain the rocks with loveliest 

 flowers. The crag walls of every alpine 

 valley are her gardens ; the Harebells 

 toss their azure bells from the seams 

 of the stones in the bridges across the 

 mountain streams ; the ruins of the 

 temples of the great peoples of old, who 

 really could build nobly, grow many a 

 wild flower. Even when we take the 

 stone and build with it, tender colours 

 of lowly plants soon come and clothe 

 the stone. 



But the maker of these miserable 

 garden walls, without use or need, says 

 in effect. Here Nature shall not come to 

 hide my cleverness. I have built walls, 

 and hare they must be ! 



Well, with this bareness of the wall 

 there were the usual geometrical pattern 

 beds, many filled with sand and broken 



