GARDENS OF MANY KINDS 13 
When termed a moraine garden, a miniature slope 
of fine stones is made for alpine dwarfs that do 
not thrive well in pockets of soil. Broadly speak- 
ing, a rock garden is a semblance of nature, which 
may be no more than the mere planting of native 
flowers by existing rocks. One great advantage of 
it is that it need be only a yard square and still 
be what it pretends to be; there are many tiny 
ones in England. And it can be entrancingly 
beautiful without the employment of any plants 
but some of the “‘iron-clad” perennials. 
A wall garden is not to be confused with a 
walled garden. It is any wall in the crevices of 
which are grown appropriate plants. The mortar 
may be knocked out here and there in an old wall, 
but it is better to make a dry one—that is to 
say, one in which the crevices are filled with earth 
for planting. It is a large or small undertaking, 
according to desire and circumstance; nothing could 
be simpler than a simple one. 
‘Lhe water garden is a sufficiently expansive 
term to cover plants that like “wet feet’ as well 
as those that actually grow in the water; for that 
matter it may be made up of either, the water 
being the essential thing. As for pretentiousness, 
a tub of water sunk in the ground and a single 
water lily growing in it, with a bit of perennial 
forget-me-not flourishing in the adjacent moist soil, 
is a water garden that is not to be sneered at; the 
birds will tell you that by their actions, if they 
cannot in so many words. 
