A SUSSEX ROCK-GARDEN. 
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Turning round and facing the entrance to the tunnel, Echeverias 
will be seen growing and flowering freely in the chinks between the 
stones. These plants have been here for two years, and some planted 
in a similar way on the other side of the ravine have stood out for 
four years without damage from frost. Doubtless, if these had been 
planted flat, so that water could have lain in them, they would have 
been destroyed, Androsace lanuginosa and all the other species of 
Androsace that we have tried have thriven well on our rock. We 
give some of them slight protection in the winter. 
In the chinks of the chasm and rocky cliffs at the base of the 
rock many alpines are planted, one of the cracks being filled with 
Dianthus alpinus, another with D. caesius, and so on. 
Among the rocks to the right of the pool, and below the cliffs, 
there is a fine colony of Saxifraga Fortunei. I have planted and am 
allowing a large number of our rarer British Hieracia to seed about 
naturally in the cracks of the rocks, some of the alpine species being 
of great beauty. 
Returning to the other side of the Rock-garden, we come back by 
the upper path, on the sandy edges of which the pretty British Pansy, 
Viola Curtisii, from Braunton Burrows, grows. 
I should like to repeat that our Rock-garden was begun without 
any general scheme, and developed as we went along according to the 
configuration and nature of the ground. It is easy to make well- 
founded criticisms, and, given the same conditions, it is certain that 
no two persons would have arrived at precisely the same result. 
Though the general design was our own, I wish to acknowledge how 
much I owe to my gardener, Thomas Matthews, for the skill he 
displayed in selecting and placing suitable stones, for carrying out the 
various details, and for his intelligent, painstaking, and careful super- 
vision of the entire work. 
I will only add that if any of my readers feel tempted to come 
and see our Rock-garden when they are in the neighbourhood, it will 
be a pleasure to Mrs. Hanbury and me to afford them every facility 
for so doing. 
