PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. XIV CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1904 No. 12 
Reason in RocKwork. 
By H. A. Caparn. 
Rough stones are a popular article of suburban yard 
furniture. They are placed singly at strategic points to 
warn careless drivers to be careful of their wheels and 
of the front lawn, and piled up in miniature cairns with 
things that are easily accessible and cheap ; to make 
something artistic out of common and nearby things; 
and this is the only way in which we shall make our 
homes and cities beautiful and perhaps become an art- 
NO. 4. CASCADES AT FONTAINEBLEAU. 
forlorn plants 
struggling for life 
between the crev- 
ices, or tall nastur- 
tiums striving to 
cover them. When 
piled up they are 
called a “rockery” ; 
and sometimes the 
last artistic touch is 
added by a coat of 
whitewash. These 
little structures are 
often rather absurd, 
but the} r have be- 
hind them a verv 
commendable mo- 
tive ; they are an 
attempt to make 
decoration with 
NO. 5. BANK SUPPORTED BY STONES AND READY FOR PLANTING 
WITH VINES. FERNS, ETC. 
The stones will be decorative as a support to and contrast with the foliage. 
istic people. 
So we may as- 
sume that if a 
“rockery” is at all 
ridiculous, it is not 
because a structure 
of rough stones is 
wrong in general 
but because there 
is something 
wrong with this 
particular case. 
Most of the mil- 
lions of houses in 
which we live are 
not at all beauti- 
ful, yet a house is 
not necessarily an 
ugly thing; it may 
be, and should be 
the contrary. The 
