ARTIFICIAL ROCK WORK, 63 
REMARKS ON ARTIFICIAL ROCK WORK. 
There are many plants that succeed best when planted 
among rocks, and for their accommodation and to show of 
their beauties to the greatest advantage, it is common in 
large gardens to have an appendage, called a rockery. 
This is made of a collection of stones in the rough, or 
natural state, laid up without much order, with soil, which 
should be concealed as much as possible by the fragments 
of rocks. : 
As some plants succeed best in the shade, a portion of 
the rock work should be partly surrounded by trees. 
Trilliums, Orchids, Cypripediums, and many other wild 
plants found in the woods and swamps, with an appropriate 
soil, would succeed very well in such a locality. I find an 
excellent article on this subject, written by my late friend 
J. E. Teschemacker, Esq., in one of the back numbers of 
the Horticultural Journal, which, as it is appropriate, I 
insert. He says: ‘ 
“There are many plants with rather small flowers which 
possess exquisite colors and elegant forms; the charm of 
these is in a great measure lost by their being planted in 
the bed where the pitiless shower defaces their delicate 
tints with earthy splashes, or their distance from the eye 
causes their minute yet elegant characters to pass unno- 
ticed ; other plants run over the surface of the flower 
border to great distances, interfering with their neighbors, 
which woul look much better hanging pendant from the 
crevice of a rock, or covering the sunny bank with their 
numerous blossoms. 
“Nature, who is always an interesting and instructive 
teacher, points out such facts plainly, by often exhibiting 
