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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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have room to play, and memory to yield from its stores of material 
garnered in past days. 
e will now, if you please, go back to Belgium. It has been 
suggested that Mr. and Mrs. Everaerts are “workers” in their garden, 
and it is true. They are workers both in it and for it. Their holidays 
have been spent for years past in searching for treasures abroad that 
they could establish at home \ and nowhere have 1 seen the ecpual of the 
and running stream below, through leafy tangle at the base, up stepping 
stones, then creeping in tortuous course along the mountain side to the 
resting chalet at the summit. 
A few years ago an artist endeavoured to pourtray this fine example 
of taste and labour in this Journal, and although he conveyed an idea of 
the nature of the work, he could not adequately represent either its mag¬ 
nitude or charms. Still as it is the be3t representation available, I shall 
work that has been done by two amateurs. It seems incredible that the 
huge alpine rockery could have been built by one pair of bands in spare 
morning and evening hours. Hundreds of tons of material must have 
been employed in its construction, and the stones were brought from a 
distance of several miles ; while the plants that, clothe it so richly were 
collected and placed in their positions by the steady untiring persever¬ 
ance of the owners over a period of a quarter of a century. In 
design, as well as magnitude, the rockery is remarkable. It must be a 
replica in miniature of some natural scenes—of precipice and rugged 
knolls, of spurs and peaks, with narrow paths leading from the gorge 
ask that it be reproduced, as it seems fitting that the worker and his 
work should be seen together in the pages which have afforded him 
pleasure and helped him in his various cultures during his gardening 
career. They could not teach him how to make and furnish a rockery, 
for in that art he is a Master ; but in the production of fruit and flowers 
under glass and outdoors, also in the vegetable supply for his two estab¬ 
lishments, they have been useful. It has been previously said, and I have 
had conclusive evidence of the fact from the tongue of his gardener, that 
he, through the liberality of his employer, was taught the English 
language for the purpose of reading the Journal of Horticulture. Tha 
