PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Parks 
MAKING AND PLANTING A ROCK GARDEN IN AN ENGLISH PARK 
{Translated from Moeller's Deutsche Gaertner- ZeiUing). 
In Germany, as well as England, some wealthy 
owners of large areas of land frequently present a 
part of the latter to the Government of some city or 
town, on condition that the city is to change the 
donated land into a public park at its own expense. 
Usually, however, the donors reserve such of their 
lands as abut on the park property for their own use, 
knowing that, as soon as the park is laid out, the sale 
of the abutting land as building lots for cottages, etc., 
will net them a far greater amount than could other- 
wise have been obtained for it. 
A laudable exception to this generally customary 
mode of proceeding occurred recently at Wellington, 
in Somersetshire, England. In that city, the owners 
of an extensive manufacturing plant, Messrs. Eox 
Brothers, donated not only the land required for a 
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SECTION OF GROTTO IN PARK, WELLINGTON, ENG. 
Wasser- Water; Zement-Cement; Hohle-Grotto 
municipal park, but defrayed the entire expense of 
laying out the grounds, including the cost of the build- 
ings, plants, etc., etc., and agreed, moreover, to an- 
nually contribute a certain amount towards the ex- 
pense of maintenance. 
An interesting “rock garden” is located in the cen- 
ter of this park. Notwithstanding all the stuff and non- 
sense published from time to time concerning the de- 
cay of natural landscape gardening in England, it re- 
mains an undeniable fact that Englishmen — perhaps 
more than any other people — have preserved an un- 
changeable predilection for rocks and other .wild ef- 
fects in garden scenery. It was the wish of the donors 
that this park should not lack at least a small bit of 
