ALPINE FLOWERS. 



Part I. 



there are miniature peaks, cliffs, and ravines with perhaps bog 

 and water. 



Of the general arrangements of the rock-garden I can offer no 

 better guidance than is conveyed by the various illustrations in 

 this book ; wishing, however, thereby merely to point in the 

 right direction, as it is desirable that in these matters we should 

 have endless variety. 



The most usual and deplorable of the faults in making rock- 

 work is that of so 

 arranging the stones 

 that they seem to 

 have as little connec- 

 tion with the soil of 

 the spot as if thrown 

 out of a cart, indeed 

 less so. Instead of al- 

 lowing what may be 

 temied the founda- 

 tions, or apparent 

 foundations, of the 

 rock-garden to bare' 

 ly show their upper 

 ridges above the 

 earth, as in Fig. 4, 

 and thereby sug- 

 gesting much more 

 endurable ideas of 

 " rock " than those 

 arising from the con- 

 templation of the 

 bold and unnatural 

 looking masses usu- 

 ally seen, the stones 

 are often placed on 

 the ground with 

 bricklayer in setting 

 explain exactly what 



Fig. 6. — Wrong. 



much the same idea that animates a 



bricks. The two preceding cuts will 



I mean ; both are accurately engraved from photographs, 



both represent small portions of artificial rockwork ; the ugliest 



of the two was much the most difficult and expensive to make. 



A few loads of well-selected stones, allowed to peep from some 



