The Winning Designs 
clusion that a rectangular plot of land with an area of 
about 100 square feet does not offer much that is 
desirable for such a feature. Broadly speaking, there 
are two distinct types of rock garden. The one, 
designed to reproduce in miniature those ruggedly 
picturesque effects that one sees in naturally rocky 
lands in such a way that each craggy prominence shall 
carry the mind to that ‘‘ vaster multitude of moun- 
tains,’’ and which shall reconstruct a picturesque com- 
bination of rock and plant life within the area at one’s 
disposal in a way that, although the art employed is 
purely imitative, the results shall be so accurate in 
their accomplishment that they shall give the impres- 
sion of being realistic parts of some greater whole. 
Nor is this desire to bring within the confines of our 
own garden plot little pictures of the great natural 
facts to be deprecated because it is imitative. There 
is no real beauty in anything that does not mirror 
Nature. ‘‘ That beauty is the normal state is shown 
by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it,’’ wrote 
Emerson. I have spoken of this work as an “‘art,’’ 
well knowing that exception will be taken to the use of 
the word in such an association. But it zs an art, as 
is every genuine effort that fulfils this condition ; 
‘‘ whatever is great in human art is the expression of 
man’s delight in God’s work.’’ Robbed of this aspira- 
tion after the realistic imitation of natural effects, the 
tock garden is without meaning or real beauty. It 
has no other excuse for existence than that it shall be 
to that ‘‘vaster multitude of mountains’’ what the 
dainty miniature is to the larger epic painting. One 
choice little bit, selected and skilfully arranged with 
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