LARGE ROCK-GARDENS 95 



disfigured by labels, and yet I can heartily sympathise 

 with all, for I consider that in dealing with these 

 matters one must never forget, or be afraid to repeat 

 by word or in writing, the plain fact that a pleasure 

 garden is for the purpose of giving pleasure, and that 

 though my own delight in a garden may be worked 

 out in one Avay, yet other people may take their 

 pleasure quite rightly in ways altogether different. 



It has always seemed to me that when there is a 

 very small space to be dealt with, as in the gardens of 

 hundreds of small villas in the suburbs of London and 

 other large towns, that to lay it out as a rock-garden 

 would be the best way of making the most of it. No 

 doubt many clever owners of such houses have done 

 it already, but others may not have thought of it, and 

 though in a restricted area one cannot have large 

 effects, yet there is no reason why one should not 

 have well-designed ones, such as would be in perfect 

 proportion and suitability of scale to the space at 

 command ; while such a little garden Avould admit of 

 a much greater variety of forms of plant beauty than 

 could be appropriately used in any other way. 



