HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
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Rockwork, Grottoes and Figures 
We illustrate below a view in the gardens at Ver- 
sailles, the picturesque effectiveness of which is always 
admired. The figures represent the Baths of Apollo. 
It is a harmony of opposites. Good taste dictates 
that rock carving and statuary are only in keeping 
with formality in gardens, and should not be used in 
compositions where the extremely natural is simulated ; 
but here the happy selection of a mythological sub- 
ject and the artistic treatment has pleasingly combined 
the formal and natural. 
A Bold Rockery 
The engraving above illustrates a section of an un- 
usually impressive piece of rockwork. The plants- Agaves 
and Draciena Draco — are boldly placed; those on the 
top stand out effectively against the sky line. The 
irregularly outlined lakelet spanned by an arch and the 
reflections in the water all add picturesqueness. The 
plants fringing the water edge are Iris and Sweet Flag. 
The two large-leaved plants are Gunneras. Smaller rock- 
loving plants of different sorts partially veil the rugged 
rocks in places. 
