THE ROCK GARDEN
Commonsense Rock Gardening. By F. Kingdon-Ward. Jonathan Cape. H 4 PPThe New Zealand rock garden is not, of course, so well served in this book as the English; but the author insists so strongly everywhere on first principles that the intelligent and enthusiastic reader will reap an abundant profit. Mr Kingdon-Ward has the beginner first and last in his mind; and that is as it should be. And the beginner, especially, will thank him i for fundamental advice, constructive and cautionary. As an example of sound cautionary advice there may be cited Mr Kingdon-Ward’s chapter on what to plant and what not to plant He is, rightly, against that far-too-catholic extension of rock gardening which imports all sorts of plants that may do quite well, and look quite well, in the rock garden, but do and look far better in a more normal situation. The book is illustrated with the author’s photographs—of “natural" rock gardens in Tibet, on- the Burma and Assam borders of Tibet, in the Himalayas, and in China —and with figures.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 5
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