A Little Rock Garden 
fidelity to natural laws, and its aim is achieved. This 
can be done equally well with a dozen stones as with a 
thousand tons. In fact, three stones casually dis- 
posed in an odd corner of the garden, lying, perchance, 
in a bed of Heather, and sheltering in their well-worn 
crevices the right vegetation, the plants that would 
grow there naturally, can be more eloquent in their 
appeal to our true sympathy with the beautiful in 
Nature than a lavish expenditure on stone and labour 
usually succeeds in being, where the aim is to have a 
rock garden because it is fashionable, and for that 
reason only. 
And this can be achieved in a garden of any size, 
but it will not be by measuring off a square plot and 
dumping a few loads of burr bricks and ancient con- 
crete thereon, amongst which many plants will linger 
on a miserable existence which is merely a procrastina- 
tion of death. 
If the reader wishes to attempt something of the 
nature I have described it will be best done in a corner 
rather removed from the house, so that those more 
formal lines that must of necessity remain in conjunc- 
tion therewith may be gradually softened a little into 
some more informal arrangement. I illustrate one 
simple method whereby a delightfully realistic result 
can be obtained. 
It consists in hollowing out an area just on the corner 
of two paths, and descending by two or three shallow 
rock steps into a miniature ravine. The earth so 
removed is disposed irregularly on either side, and the 
stone is made to appear as though it occurred natur- 
ally on the site, but that a track had been made through 
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