A well-formed and flourishing rockery is an ornament to every lawn.
Petrified wood forms very beautiful rockeries, but as our purpose is to
assist our young friends to make their own rockeries, we will leave the
more elaborate to the gardener.
Save all the clinkers from your furnace coal, dip them in a hot lime
wash to color them pure white, their fantastic shapes are thus more
conspicuous; arrange them in a mound according to your fancy; leave at
suitable distances cavities of six or eight inches deep, to be filled
with soil; in this plant your creeping plants; bright colors should
be selected for a white rockery. Dwarf Scarlet Tropæolum, Scarlet
Verbenas, Petunias, Golden Moneywort, Lobelias, Scarlet Geraniums,
Myrtles, Coleus, German Ivy, &c., are used to good effect on this rock
work. Hydraulic cement instead of lime will make a pretty drab color.
If the rockery is protected by some shade, it looks well to plant it
with Ferns and Lycopodiums.