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Among our really worthy. Alpine gardens, we can see beauty of contour, balance, proportion, natural effect both in the general design as well as in the minor details. We see truly clever color schemes, continuity of beauty, proper arrangement of plant materia‘s as to height. In the water areas within and adjoining, we see Just ordinary landscape. work reâ€" quires much thought, artistic feeling and practice. .A lifetime will not suffice to fully appreciate this one fact. Now many will say, "why all this nonsense about a pile of stones overâ€" grown with flowers and vine." Well, just so long as a rock garden is just merely rocks and plants, just that long it will be just a rockery and not a work of art. So long as we incorporate in our rockeries, caves which look like tunâ€" nel mouths or rustic fireplaces, force streams to flow over the . highest points of the garden, invert nature‘s scheme of stony strata, and lead waterfalls out over the top of caves, just so long we will be about where we started. Masterpicces are not painted by day Jaborers, by plumbers, by teamâ€" sters, carpenters, cement contractors, ctc., unless as is sometimes the case, they happen to also be artists, capaâ€" hle either by nature or practise to do veally artistic work, Art like many other things is not secured so much on a price basis as it is on a quality basis. We know inâ€" telligent people who do not see the difference ‘between a few hours spent in designing and the same hours spent with a shovel or piling up some stones. uises the picture to convey, his reason for building the picture. In selecting the few pictures which you can give space to in your home, you choose them from among the mass, because of these elusive qualiâ€" ties, these notes unheard by many but notes which have touched responâ€" sive chords in your personality. This is what bespeaks personality in the appointments of ~your home. This is what lifts the rock garden out of the general average and makes it stand as a work of art, with its own peculiar charm, its impelling and continued interest. Surely there is no sort of gardenâ€" ing art which offers such a wide range for the testing of skill and art. Here we may combine colors, plan perfume effects, assemble the whole as one unit and in picture arry. Beâ€" yond all this we may give a suggesâ€" tion of the time and patience with which the creator patterns the stones, we may indicate the thought of perâ€" manence and stability by a studied use of rugged boulders and of layâ€" cred stones shaped into overhanging shelves, sharp shoulders, miniature cliffs and stone clogged draws. And then beyond all this we may pour in that mysterious element, an element which may be unseen to the unseeâ€" ing, the message which the artist ers claim our attention, but in comâ€" parison with what they might be, we find ourselves speaking of many of them as atrocious. _ Even as we look back at our own work of a comparatively recent time, we label much of it as very crude. Indeed rock gardening is in its very infancy and this only adds to ts lure, to the romance of this new type of gardening. Thursday, September 25, 1930 |the many possibilities of charm and ’interest brought out into view, utilâ€" \ized and coâ€"ordinated. These gardens speak to us of the cooling woods, the soothing waters, the tranquil shades, they are a background for the play of the sunlight, the romance of the twilight, the flit of bird and splash of fish, the play of the colored lightings, the wafted perfumes. We find all this in many of our better gardens, and still there may be room left for the touch of the master, for the embodyâ€" ing of a soul, for a human message. One stroke of the brush may make or mar a masterpiece. Masters do not always turn out masterpieces. Bofore we can embody that superb something in our garden picture or in a painting, we must first be able to see it in a landstape, a picture or in our mental vision. â€" To build up to this point we must simply wish to see, and then practice seeing, and as sight begins to come to us we must practice recording, painting, building. While we are still in the kindergarâ€" ten class, we can set down a few prinâ€" ciples which will be an added help. First, rock gardens are intended to be copies of the methods of nature in building the hiliside gardens, the rugâ€" ged hillside slopes, miniature Alpine sweeps. . Nature does not duplicate, no two spots look alike. She uses but few rocks and stone outcroppings in comparison with the mass of growing things. Nature groups stones, trees, SCHAUFFLER‘S LANDSCAPES but help Nature along Do not correct Nature, THE PRESS It is possible to imagine a rock garâ€" den wherein should be used but one kind of stone. But why do we see most of them that way ? Nature does not so restrict herself, When so much more satisfying an effect can be seâ€" cured by using more variety, most surely we should use some sorts other than the prevailing type. You do not equip your entire home with just one sort or patternâ€"of chair. A rockery should not be primarily a display of rock but rather a garden, and a garden means growing things, evergreens, alpines, flowers, vines, ferns always, mosses, wild flowers. flowers. â€" Study how clashing of colors. Alpine or Rock Gardens a Specialty Formal Water Pools and Natural Pools Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens and Perennials Driveways and Concrete Work Black Soil â€"â€"_and Fertilizer Rockeries Ravines Flagstone Work rormal Gardens Natural Lavouts Rustic Work AWns nature avoids Mr. Frank Lewis, Glencoe Mr. Don Mercer, Indian Hill Mr. Herbert Mackie, Highland Park Mrs. James Simpson, Glencoe Mrs. Joseph Speigel, Winnetka Mrs. Modie J. Spiegel, Winnetka Mrs. William Vehon, Highland Park Mr. Warren Wright, Golfe Mrs Mr. Mi Mp 11 11 Henry Schauffler Samuel Goodman, Highland Park Abraham Freiler, Glencoe Willis Albert Dennis,. Glencoe (Inside Rock Garden, with pool and waterfall in conservatory) Landscape Designer and Contractor E. Howard, Winnetka Rock Gardens, Ravines Waterfalls and Pools Schauffler built for: Telephone Glencoe 1083 Baldauf, Highland Park am Many a poor human worm hasn‘t enough energy to turn. .â€"â€" Toledo Blade. each color of which it is a combina tion. In the building of your garden picâ€" ture, the master may be yourself, the professional garden, your neighbor or the man who cuts the grass, Let us fully enjoy these delightful gardens and at the same time know that here is a little developed art and one with much promise, opportunity and lure. An increase of 60 nurseries in Iliâ€" nois has ‘been reported during the year ending June 30, a total of 762 as compared to 702 the year before. This includes the acreage devoted to the propagation of fruit trees, ornaâ€" mental shrubbery, plants and flowâ€" ers, subjected to inspection by the plant industry division in the state department of agriculture, . Small nurseries covering less than two acres of ground were mainly responsible for the incroase. If "unhappy the bride the rain falls on" holds good, there will be few diâ€" vorces for this summer‘s crop.â€"Dayâ€" ton Journal. Number of Nurseries in Illinois Is Increased 0. Box No Clark, GHencoe Glencoe