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Updated: May 13, 2025
Suddenly her eye caught something. "What's that there, on the ground by the fountain?" They were near the spot where Dawes had been seized the night before. A little stream ran through the garden, and a Triton of convict manufacture blew his horn in the middle of a convict built rockery. Under the lip of the fountain lay a small packet. Frere picked it up.
Berry, who knew nothing of the unreturned rockery, and nothing of the mysterious doings of Steve Brown, this was a question which called for an answer. Evidently it was no preconcerted move. Mrs.
Every summer she would fear lest the well should give out, every winter lest the pipes should freeze; every westerly gale might blow the wych-elm down and bring the end of all things, and so she could not read or talk during a westerly gale. The air was tranquil now. She and her sister were sitting on the remains of Evie's rockery, where the lawn merged into the field.
"I don't remember," said I, remembering fast enough. "In the rockery," she reminded me. "When you asked what people said about him, and I said that about living on his wits." "And being a paid amateur!" "But the other was the worst." "I'm not so sure," said I. "But his wits wouldn't carry him very far if he only took necklaces and put them back again."
Mrs. Argenter asked Rodney something about the best arrangement for the open beds, and wanted to know what would be surest to do well for the rockery, and whether it was in a good part of the house, sufficiently shaded? Meanwhile, Amy and Sylvie were turning over music, and when they all gathered together again the call had extended to a two hours' visit.
Then there was a pretty rockery made of a pyramid of pumice, full of embossed rosettes of living sea-anemones of scarlet, orange, grey and black colors, which were trained to fold themselves up like an umbrella, or blossom out like chrysanthemums, at certain hours of the day, or when touched, behaving just like four o'clocks and sensitive plants.
This method may be adopted in England, and if carefully managed, the growth the plants would make would far exceed anything ever accomplished when they are kept permanently in pots. Out-of-doors. There are some kinds which may be grown out of doors altogether, if planted on a sunny, sheltered position, on a rockery.
"All is gold that glitters Tree and tower of brass; Rolls the golden evening air Down the golden grass. Kick the cry to Jericho, How yellow mud is sold; All is gold that glitters, For the glitter is the gold." "And who wrote that?" asked Rosamund, amused. "No one will ever write it," answered Smith, and cleared the rockery with a flying leap.
With that my friend crossed the strip of lawn, and careless of the fact that his silhouette must have been visible to any one passing the gate, climbed carefully up the artificial rockery intervening, and crouched upon the window-ledge peering into the room. A moment I hesitated, fearful that if I followed, I should stumble or dislodge some of the larva blocks of which the rockery was composed.
Now a rockery, with all the good intentions lying behind it, is not a rock garden. It is no more a rock garden than a line of cedars planted in an exact circle would be a wood. A rockery is generally a lot of stones stuck in a pile of soil or, worse yet, a circular array of stones filled in with soil. A rock garden, above all else, is not artificial; at least, so far as appearance goes.
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