| 单词 | rockery |
| 例句 | Under cover of darkness I sneaked down to the rockery and tossed the head into the glebe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Kingfisher Meadows was all rain-stained walls, dripping bird tables, wet gnomes, swilling ponds, and shiny rockeries. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So the rockery rocks stayed on our driveway for two more weeks, until Mr. Broadwas got back from his holiday in Ilfracombe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Cool in that he had his own rockery style, procured from thrift stores and garage sales, not from Urban Outfitters knockoffs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The mug exploded when it hit the rockery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Well, that was Daddy all over, wasn't it? Come on. Show me where you're thinking of putting that rockery...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “No, we discussed it before Christmas. You said, 'Next year maybe.' Like the year before, and the year before. Besides, you said yourself how nice Brian's rockery looks.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, I get it. Harper’s Bazaar does a special on rockeries so of course we have to have one too.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Black cows'd gathered in the field, just over our fence, past the rockery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I ran to the back garden in time to catch Mum hurling her Prince Charles and Princess Diana mug at a gigantic heron, perched on the rockery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mum was looking stonier and stonier as the rockery in the garden and the rockery in her blueprint got more and more different. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z To the right of the driveway sits what Child calls his rockery. Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z After him came the landscape gardens of Capability Brown and Humphry Repton and, ultimately, every hillock and winding path, and every picturesque gazebo and rockery in suburban gardens everywhere, can claim descent. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z For yes, in case you’ve been living under a giant rockery, George Eliot was a “her,” with several roles other than her nom de plume: daughter, sister, friend, wife, stepmother. George Eliot’s Scandalous Answer to ‘The Marriage Question’ 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z But the corner property was pretty much all lawn and rockery. Garden redesign is the best of old and new 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z For example, a foot-high rope was installed around the backyard’s “rockery” — a legacy of the original 1901 design of the space. Cooper Hewitt Museum: A Mommy-and-Me Hot Spot 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In the past decade some householders in these outwardly innocuous inter- and postwar cul-de-sacs have planted flagpoles beside the pampas grass or the rockery and raised the flag of St George. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z The Rill ends more than 400 feet downstream, at a new stone bridge that straddles an aquatic plant rockery. Perspective | Why I want my politicians to spend some time in a garden 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The gardens flow between outdoors and indoors, lawns are absent, and the landscape uses ponds and plantings to achieve a cosmic balance with the structural rockeries and buildings. China wants a bold presence in Washington — so it’s building a $100 million garden 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z There are plans for an exhibition space with information on the garden’s origins, an area showcasing the restoration process and an open space with views of the rockeries in one of the garden’s courtyards. World Monuments Fund Enlists Selldorf Architects for Forbidden City Project 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The design reflects a very Northwest sensibility, with rockery, oak and cedar surfaces, and a live ivy wall. HG Lodge to open 04/09/10 where The War Room was on the corner of Pike and Harvard in Capitol Hill 2010-04-02T19:04:00Z Since trapping restarted, stoats have been found making dens in attics, under kitchen floorboards, in garden rockeries, and in greater density than on the UK mainland. Call for extra £8m to eradicate stoats from Orkney 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Pathways feature mature trees, native perennials, colorful annuals in situ, and a pond, rain garden, rockery and a waterwheel. Whidbey Island: Rural life and respite | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The marble slab was first unearthed from the rockery of the garden of a bungalow in Whiteparish, near Salisbury, 20 years ago and then used in the owner's stable. Horse mounting block is 2,000-year-old Roman relic 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Its spiralling wall resembles a rockery, embedded with boulders, living plants and chunks of reused waste glass. ‘The Michelangelo of kitsch’: the restoration of outsider architect Bruce Goff 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Instead of getting the woman someplace safe or summoning medical help, Rogoff said Hanson — who was apparently driving drunk — slammed his pickup into some rockery, causing the woman’s head injury and subsequent stroke. West Seattle man sentenced to 25 years for raping woman who suffered a stroke after car crash 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The complex includes 27 extravagantly designed buildings, four courtyards and elaborate rockery gardens. China’s Forbidden City opens to the general public at night for the first time in 94 years 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z In the Essex village of Easthorpe, a sheela was deemed too obscene to keep and so was given to a museum after serving time in the vicarage garden rockery. The naked women adorning Britain's churches 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z His wife, Phyllis, designed a pond that shines in their backyard among rockery, sunflowers, corn fields and an old Chevy truck. A spirited partnership with Woodinville Whiskey Co. saved the day (and then some) at a struggling family farm 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Authorities say that in an effort to avoid being caught with large amounts of heroin, the conspirators stashed some of it in public places, including in a rockery in the Roosevelt neighborhood of North Seattle. Heroin dealers who hid stash near Seattle parks sentenced 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Tracy Ward, from Guernsey, and her father Brian Russell were digging out a rockery when the pair started to find pieces of metal. Classic car found buried in back garden 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The beds around the terrace, and the rockery below, are filled with low-growing, spreading plants that echo the lines of the house and don’t interfere with the view. Designer Stacie Crooks creates an enhancing garden in Innis Arden 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Officers later found paint chips on rockery and pieces of plastic in the road near 40th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Genesse Street, according to the charges. Police looking for man charged with raping woman severely injured in car crash 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Behind the church, the priest also built a rockery beside a stream that ran off First Hill. Father Prefontaine got little help building Our Lady of Good Help 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Now wide, inviting stairs lead up through the rockery. A look at Dale and Leslie Chihuly’s minimalist garden 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z So if there's a bit of Roman stone - better still mortar - in Gran's rockery, the Temple of Mithras would like it back. How do you put London's Roman shrine back together? 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z At the foot of the rockery, a grapevine-draped pergola runs along one side of an otherwise wide-open stretch of lawn. Designer Stacie Crooks creates an enhancing garden in Innis Arden 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The “National China Garden” is to feature a lake, a two-storey teahouse, rockeries, pavilions, bamboo groves, art exhibits and a homage to the White Pagoda of Yangzhou. Chinese garden diplomacy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Old compost heaps, sheds and patios to nest under, rockeries full of cavities and so on.” Two books on the bumblebee The first step was to bring in boulders to turn the meandering front slope into a stable rockery in scale with the house. A look at Dale and Leslie Chihuly’s minimalist garden 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A specialist team of officers searched land at Beth Berith last year and found Mr Sturdey's body buried near a rockery. Two jailed in burial and fraud case 2014-02-17T12:48:25Z Removing part of the rock garden may be an option, or hiring someone to help maintain the rockery if you are very attached to it and to the interesting plants. Ask an Expert: Gardening Advice for Aging Bodies, Part 2 2013-06-26T11:00:01Z Water cannon were used by police during the trouble in south Belfast "I saw this tall hooded person in my garden - I have a rockery - and they were lifting the boulders," Councillor Cleland said. Loyalists in Belfast flag protest 2012-12-08T14:43:11Z An abundance of cottage gardens and little rockeries satisfy them. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z She scrambled on to the rockery under it, and, scratching her hand against the climbing rose-branches, she grasped the ledge and looked in through the white-curtained glass. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z At first he thought the queer-looking things he saw must be odd-shaped pieces of stone, or petrifactions, such as you see in old-fashioned rockeries in gardens sometimes. Nurse Heatherdale's Story 2012-03-06T03:00:21.190Z Hardy British ferns belonging to such genera as Asplenium, Nephrodium, Aspidium, Scolopendrium, have become fairly popular of late years, and many charming varieties are now used in borders and rockeries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z And there are fountains and grottoes, and rockeries and cascades, with flowers growing about them, which give the whole place a pleasant, healthy, and delightful appearance. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z I don't work in my garden very often, 'cause it's rather tiresome, but I like building my rockery, and when we go to the seaside, I shall gather lots of shells for it. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z A few species are hardy in dry sheltered positions, such as rockeries, under walls and old trees, provided the positions are well drained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z There is a tiny pond, no larger than a good-sized basin, surrounded by a rockery imitating Fuji; and across an almost imaginary stream a few inches wide is thrown a wooden bridge. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Lysimachia.—The best known is the Creeping Jenny, L. Nummularia, much used for trailing over rockeries and window boxes, with bright yellow flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Boys clamber over the wall, make houses of the slabs, and for one brief hour, “dwell in marble halls,” then go home and carry off the smaller pieces to ornament a rockery. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z We had one tree-fern that rose from the centre of a rockery, and spread itself over it like a handsome umbrella. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Other people had come in and made groups among the foolish rockery. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Still, I leave you mistress to do what you like, since it amuses you; only, once purchased, don't pull it down to put a rockery there. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Many of the little alpines may be brought into 768 the front line planted between suitable pieces of stone, or they may be relegated to a particular spot, and placed on an artificial rockery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z They are appropriate in any situation in the flower border or rockery. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z He built them up like rockeries, and flowers actually grew on them, although they had never been planted. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z And here perhaps was a rockery, with a fountain playing and a streamlet trickling away riverwards, through the greenest of grass. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Strombidæ, comprising shells, like the huge Strombus, or "Fountain-shell," which is so often used to adorn the mantelpiece or rockery, and from which cameos are cut. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Well adapted for carpeting the border or rockery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z These kinds are valuable for planting in bold masses in partially shaded places in the rockery, or in short grass. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z This spacious park, intersected by a willow-lined stream, is called the Paseo, and is ornamented with statues, fountains, and rockeries. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Right in the centre of the square room is a fountain playing, the spray falling down upon a charming little rockery in the middle of a stone basin. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Under the east wall is a long terraced rockery, well covered with suitable plants; and along the west wall runs a broader bed devoted to very small shrubs and to flowers. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z Cyclamen.—Charming tuberous-rooted plants of dwarf habit, suitable for sheltered rockeries, and growing in light gritty soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Only a few species and their numerous varieties are cultivated in the open air, being either massed in bold clumps in the ordinary flower border or rockery, or as beds by themselves in the grass. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z She loved her garden, cultivated herbaceous plants, and was specially addicted to a rockery in which she acclimatised flowers from the Alps. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z On this rockery dwelt ferns that loved moisture, and creeping saxifrages, with pretty flowerets of deepest crimson, but not a bit bigger than a bee’s head. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Sometimes she was obliged to make a wide détour to avoid a clump of trees, or a rockery, or a summer-house with a pergola leading to it, smothered with vines and passion-flowers and roses. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Out of the dense shadow behind the mound of periwinkle came a sudden rushing sound, a sharp bark, and the large collie Pilot sprang over a stone wall and bounded up to the rockery. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z On another side was heard a shrill whistle from a troop of marmots, which were running quickly to hide themselves in the chinks and crevices of the artificial rockery, that served as their dwelling. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z “Are you going to do the rockery in the garden?” Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge 2011-02-24T03:01:03.877Z Oh come on, he was involved in that business where he drank the cleaning fluid and thought he was a rockery? Harry Pearson: No substitute for an impact player 2010-03-26T00:05:00Z A lake, surrounded by choice shrubs, and a seat under shelter of the rockery near, proved an ideal halting-place, whilst moonlight was good for dreams and fairy visions. A Blot on the Scutcheon The garden walk she had followed divided, and into a narrow path she plunged, finding a resting place on a miniature rockery covered with fern and periwinkle. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The plant was introduced into English gardens about the middle of the 18th century, but is not often grown; it is a handsome plant for a rockery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The rockeries beneath the staging should not be built high enough to obstruct the passage of the heat from the hot-water piping, a rise of one foot from the ground level being sufficient. Orchids The truth is not one gardener in a hundred knows how to make a rockery, though he does not like to say so! Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them In the centre of the pan was a miniature rockery, a pile of stones the size of one's fist, with these same ferns planted in all the crevices. Gala Day Luncheons A Little Book of Suggestions Many of the species are grown in gardens for their elegant flowers; the dwarf forms are excellent for pot culture, rockeries or fronts of borders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" This had often been done before, but it was quite a new thing, and entirely Betty's own idea, to cover the mud banks with glittering fragments of gravel, so that they looked like rockeries. The Eagle's Nest To create a good appearance, narrow, ornamental rockeries may be arranged at the edge of the side staging and beneath it, and in any part of the basement available. Orchids A small piece of turf, just a few feet wide, at the bottom of the corner style of rockery, is a great set-off, and a vast improvement on a gravel path. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them He was doing something in the rockery, clambering over the big stones, and one turned over... Lady Cassandra The hardy species will grow well in dry sandy soil, and are suitable for rockeries, old walls or edgings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" On the left is a ‘rockery’ of tufa, planted with the hybrid Anthuriums which Messrs. Sander have been producing so industriously of late years. The Woodlands Orchids Underfoot, the ground was still a rockery of fractured lava; but now the interstices were filled with soil. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The campanula family is a host in itself, many of the smaller varieties looking better on a rockery than anywhere else. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Before he had time to answer, suddenly, impetuously she had sprung to her feet, and darted round a corner of the rockery to shelter behind a clump of shrubs. Lady Cassandra The earth may be kept level, or heaped up at one or both ends, and a few stones added to make a tiny rockery, in which you can grow small saxifrages and other rock plants. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes "I'll tell Mrs. Rabbit at once," said Mr. Brumley, and started to run and trod in some complicated way on one of his loose laces and was precipitated down the rockery steps. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman She praised the effective disposition of the rockery, and in the bedroom, of which Somerset had vainly endeavoured to defend the entry, she fairly broke forth in admiration. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Dwarf evergreen shrubs greatly improve the appearance of the rockery in late autumn and winter, especially when they add berries to their attractions. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them After the unbroken greenery of the higher terraces, the rockery appeared a riot of colour, as if the very spirit of spring had chosen it for an abode. Lady Cassandra The coin hit the trombone a glancing blow on the snout, ricochetted off the bassoon and bounded into the rockery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 Make more in a year with father than he would in this old rockery in ten. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Then she declared she heard “the master” calling her, rose to her feet, made but one lurch of it into the still-life rockery, and with her head upon the lobster, fell into stertorous slumbers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) The hardy cyclamen are very suitable for a rockery, as, being beauties in miniature, they are apt to get lost in a mixed border. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Small, artificial crags have been reared amid the rockeries and the flowers, and by small, artificial paths one can climb them. Westward with the Prince of Wales In due course the messengers returned and the quarrying of the rockery began in earnest. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 Here were airy summer-houses, pavilions, bridges, rockeries, and ornamental sheets of water, as we see these things represented on lacquered ware, decorated China dishes, and fans. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months There is a spring of excellent water in the rockery behind the house, of which I beg you will make every use you desire. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop Plants that flower the whole season through are most valuable on the rockery. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Edward’s father got the gardener from next door—with, at the suggestion of Gustus, a pick—the hole in the rockery was enlarged, and they all got in. The Magic World The great artist, Kanaoka, of the end of the ninth century worked at laying out these rockeries and tiny parks. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Mr. Cave went into the shop, and stayed there until late, ostensibly to make ornamental rockeries for goldfish cases but really for a private purpose that will be better explained later. Tales of Space and Time He was in a bush of Spiræa media, which grew in the midst of the rockery, and allowed me to examine him at near range with no appearance of fear. The Foot-path Way The alpine poppies are so delicate and graceful that they seem made for the rockery. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The beautifully-carved fragments of destroyed monasteries, preserved perhaps as relics on our garden rockeries warn us of the dangers of mere formalism in religion. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter All the rococco details which had been applied to architecture now began to find their duplication in the garden rockeries—weird fantasies built of plaster and even shells of the sea. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The normality of everything on which his eyes rested did its best to reassure him—the mellow evening sunlight in the friendly room, the flowers in the rockery, the toy-boat on the pond. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Several times during the morning I thought of the matter, and after my lunch I sauntered into the rockery just as I had done the year before. The Foot-path Way The dwarf thalictrums are good rockery plants; they are grown for their foliage, which bears a striking resemblance to the maidenhair fern. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them It had a garden arranged in conventional Chinese style, with a rockery, miniature lake, and dwarf trees. Travels in the Far East Beyond them, under scattered pines, was a rockery where ferns and wild things grew. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Tabs crossed the room and opened one of the long French windows which led out into the rockery. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel We cautiously entered the rockery, and within a few minutes there flitted from a neighboring thicket into that very Spiræa bush my black-cap! The Foot-path Way Where the rockery is in the shade, no overhanging trees must be near, if choice Alpines are expected to live there. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The first studio, Nakamura's, was very artistically arranged; one large room encircled a miniature garden laid out in true Japanese style with dwarf trees, rockeries, and a tiny little lake. Travels in the Far East In this way, cascades, fountains, rustic arbors, rockeries, aquariums, tiny lakes, and every variety of landscape ornamenting, could be supplied at a comparatively small cost to each family. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Through French windows the smallest of gardens shone bravely, a-blow with bulb flowers planted in crevices of a rockery, at the foot of which lay an oval pond and a silent fountain. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Now a rockery, with all the good intentions lying behind it, is not a rock garden. Making A Rock Garden The following are some of the best flowers for a rockery. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them So that in crowded square or street My Fancy's playful mockery Plants all the pavement at my feet With favourites from the rockery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 We had once stolen some rocks from an elder cousin's rockery and started a little rockery of our own. My Reminiscences And, indeed, the little piled-up rockery outside the windows, with the spring flowers blowing and the baby lake, with the toy-boat drifting on its quiet surface, rather created the illusion that this was a cave. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel 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. Making A Rock Garden Plants of this character should be noted carefully, as they help to give a rockery a well-furnished appearance, so that one always has something to show visitors. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them "Mr. Hicks," she said, turning her head in his direction, "I believe you understand about the rockery?" The Wrong Woman She whistled and sang over her work as she transplanted forget-me-nots, sowed seeds, or tidied up the rockery, and her stalwart arms made the lawn mower fly. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story It may be well to mention here a number of the plants most appropriate for rockeries. Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden Nor should the rock garden, any more than the rockery, be in the lawn unless it is depressed and therefore out of sight, or mainly so, from the level. Making A Rock Garden The alpine pinks are treasures for the rockery, and do well in town gardens; they flower nearly all the summer, and are not particular as to soil and position, though they prefer plenty of sun. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them When the specimen-hunters had recovered from their labors they accompanied Virginia up the driveway, explaining, as they went, the whole case of the abducted rockery. The Wrong Woman Mr Robin wanted the snug quarters in the ivy, down by the melon pits; while Mrs Redbreast said it was draughty, and made up her mind to live in the rockery amongst the fern. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn Two straggling beds with a rockery filling up the corner, and scarcely a gleam of colour from one end to another! More About Peggy Ella says she saw some periwinkles and young ferns there, and we need, oh! ever so many fresh roots for the rockery. A Houseful of Girls Of course, it will be understood that sticks, except of the lightest kind, are quite inadmissible on a rockery. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them I only mentioned that tombstone business because his mother set so much store by the rockery. The Wrong Woman A moment I hesitated, fearful that if I followed I should stumble or dislodge some of the lava blocks of which the rockery was composed. The Devil Doctor In the center of the pool there was a rockery, for the benefit of plant-roots and breeding fish. Caves of Terror I have never seen this occur in the drier positions afforded by the slopes of a rockery. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. No rockery is complete without several specimens of the family of saxifrages. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Having answered his inquiries regarding neighborhood affairs, and having been finally assured that he would return the rockery and make everything "all right," she took her leave. The Wrong Woman On the left is a rockery and waterfall on no mean scale, with a romantic little lake in front. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 One of the houses had a really fine-looking conservatory attached to it, but, like others we have seen in the course of our travels, it was almost entirely given up to rockery and ferns. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 This, let me here state, will be found generally the right stuff for alpines and rockery plants. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. If rather dry weather ensues keep rockery and all Spring-flowering plants well-watered. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them And of course stones are not very plentiful around here—" "Why don't you go and take some out of Steve Brown's rockery? The Wrong Woman They had their meal served in the winter-garden, whose rockery, fountain, and solitary tree were multiplied by mirrors framed in a green trellis. A Mummer's Tale Just below her was a rockery, which offered not only an easy means of descent, but a quick mode of egress in the case of the necessity of beating a hasty retreat. A Popular Schoolgirl Then lifting her trowel, she returned with a sigh to the sowing of portulaca seeds in her rockery. The Miller Of Old Church For any one taking what may be called a botanical interest in ferns, a semi-artificial rockery, with one end in wet ground and the other reaching dry-wood conditions, is extremely interesting. The Garden, You, and I The object of their sudden interest was a rockery in the front yard. The Wrong Woman We arranged a small rockery with vines trailing over it; we made paths covered with sand; and laid out tiny dells, and hills and plains. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 Ingred slipped first one foot and then the other over the wall, and dropped on to the rockery. A Popular Schoolgirl Beneath it Sarah Revercomb was sowing portulaca seeds in a rockery she had made over a decaying stump. The Miller Of Old Church These sort of rockeries are wholly separate from the rock gardens, often majestic, that nowadays supplement a bit of natural rocky woodland, bringing it within the garden pale. The Garden, You, and I "Come on, girls," she said, breaking into the rockery. The Wrong Woman “I can keep it here till we go home, and then plant it in my rockery, where they flourish nicely, as it is beautifully sheltered from the sun.” Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses Did Eugenia ever come back, he wondered, or was the house to crumble as Miss Chris's rockery had done? The Voice of the People At the corner of the highway our lane ran to was a great iron gate, all about it towering trees, directly inside a mound of shrub-covered rockery that prevented anybody getting a peep further. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I have a rockery near my house overgrown with the little white sedum of our gardens. Science in Arcady To Mrs. 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. The Wrong Woman The drooping kinds are seen to advantage on brackets, shelves, and in suspended baskets; and the short-jointed plants of the drooping class are specially adapted for rockeries and beds. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition All the dear, familiar objects were draped by the darkness as by a curtain; the body of the sycamore assumed a spectral pallor, and the small rockery near by was as mysterious as a tomb. The Voice of the People The carriage drive took a turn round this rockery and disappeared. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel At other times he would devise schemes for new rockeries or waterworks, and he would always talk them over with us and tell us of some splendid new idea he had hit upon. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 It was Mrs. Norton; she had in mind to get the rockery returned. The Wrong Woman During the day the Snail usually remains in hiding, emerging from rockeries and creeper-covered walls in the evening or after a shower of rain. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Aquaria with goldfish were often to be seen in the houses of the upper and middle classes, the gardens and courtyards of which usually contained rockeries and artistic shrubs and flowers. Myths and Legends of China Once, when the gate was open and nobody about, I got a peep by sneaking round this rockery like a little thief. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel "Let us climb up the rockery, and sit on the garden wall," said Moppet. The Tale of Tom Kitten At the back of the house there was invariably a little garden to be seen, with a miniature rockery, a tree, and a lake; possibly also a bridge and a temple. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months This will account for the surprising displays occasionally seen on old walls and in large wild rockeries, where they are perfectly at home, apparently indifferent to the starving conditions in which their lot is cast. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition As we walked we saw some beautiful spar stones used to repair the roads, which would have done finely for our rockeries. From John O'Groats to Land's End The Claverings gardens, and particularly the great rockery, the lily pond, and the herbaceous borders, were unusually populous with unaccustomed visitors and shy young couples. Mr. Britling Sees It Through He came up the rockery by degrees, breaking the ferns, and shedding buttons right and left. The Tale of Tom Kitten Whenever a rockery is mentioned to some people they shrug their shoulders, and murmur something about a mere heap of rocks. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The cool greenhouse is the safest place for them, except in sheltered spots, where they may be planted out on a border of peat, or amongst ferns in a rockery. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition When they reached home they were looked upon as too valuable to be placed on the rockeries and retained the sole possession of a mantelshelf for many years. From John O'Groats to Land's End 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. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation A beautiful little plant, well adapted to rockeries and suited for cultivation, is Polemonium Montrosense. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Take what little earth they have about them, and try to give them a similar position in your own rockery. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Dog's-tooth Violet.—For small beds, or in front of a rockery, these compact and interesting little plants are valuable for spring flowering, and are worth cultivating for their foliage alone. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition We were ushered, my friend and myself, into a back apartment of the spacious temple, overlooking one of those marvellous miniature gardens, cunningly adorned with rockeries and dwarf trees, in which the Japanese delight. Tales of Old Japan The most successful plan is that followed at Kew, where a collection of the hardier species is planted in a rockery composed of brick rubble and stones. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation The architecture, sculpture, carving, paintings, engravings, furniture, libraries, conservatories, flowers, shrubberies and rockeries all bear and honor the finger-prints of modern taste and art. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Bring back some leaf mould from the woods, and mix the garden soil for the rockery. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Edraianthus Dalmaticus.—A charming little herbaceous perennial which proves quite hardy in our climate, and well deserves a place in the rockery. Gardening for the Million Mr. Cave went into the shop, and stayed there until late, ostensibly to make ornamental rockeries for gold-fish cases, but really for a private purpose that will be better explained later. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories During summer the plants are exposed; but when cold weather and rains come, lights are placed permanently over the rockery, and in this way it is kept comparatively dry. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation And about the rockery there are purple bunches of lilac, and the striped awning of the tennis seat touches with red the paleness of the English spring. A Mere Accident On the right of this gate, on the garden side, was a bit of a rockery which was said to have been made by my father's mother many years before. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales G. Procumbens is suitable for rockeries, as it only grows to the height of 6 in. Gardening for the Million Although the bracken is coarse and common, it makes a desirable background for rockeries, or other fern masses. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada A few of them may be recommended specially as attractive plants for a sheltered, sunny rockery. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation Nothing grew in the rockery except London pride and snails. The Phoenix and the Carpet He came up the rockery by degrees, breaking the ferns and shedding buttons right and left. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter They are suitable for the border or the rockery, and will grow in any soil if not too dry and exposed. Gardening for the Million This curious and interesting fern is one of the finest for rockeries, the tips taking root in rock-fissures. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada In any garden where a few square yards in a sunny, well-drained position can be afforded for a raised rockery, the hardy Cactuses may be easily managed. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation The nursery was dingy, because it was a basement room, and its windows looked out on a stone area with a rockery made of clinkers facing the windows. The Phoenix and the Carpet "Let us climb up the rockery and sit on the garden wall," said Moppet. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter The dwarf kinds, bearing fragrant pink flowers, are rather tender, but are very useful for rockeries occupying sheltered positions. Gardening for the Million A fine species for cultivation at the base of the artificial rockery. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada Before midday I was close under the eastern side of the Coolin, on a road which was more a rockery than a path. Mr. Standfast So would you if your only pleasure was in cruising about to find some new Cannibal Islands, and you had to stick on this muddy little rockery in a sort of rustic pond. The Wisdom of Father Brown But he moved away abruptly, in a manner that enforced solitude, and stood apparently examining the rockery. Java Head Yet on a perfect stranger in a humid rockery she was wasting what had been meant for mankind at Lord's. Mr. Justice Raffles According to Woolson, "No rockery is complete without the Hart's Tongue, the long, glossy, undulating fronds of which are sufficiently unique to distinguish any collection." The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada In the way of springs, rockeries, arbours and woods, towers and terraces, pavilions and halls, it likewise contained a good many sufficient to excite admiration. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books They were nothing like the lofty, imposing, massive and luxurious style of architecture on the other side, yet the avenues and rockeries, in the various places in the court, were all in perfect taste. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books A rockery is a part of the place in which plants are grown in pockets between rocks. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) And are they birds or souls that flit Among the trees so silently, And are they fish or ghosts that haunt The still pools of the rockery!— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh Here it was a rockery where a thousand bright-coloured stones shone out through the ferns and creepers which had been trained over them. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 But small pots, about eight inches long, four to five inches broad and two or three inches high, adorned with scenery in the shape of rockeries, were also placed about. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Along the whole length of both sides extended covered passages, connected with each other; while in the court were laid out several rockeries. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books To place a rockery on a sand bank in the burning sun is therefore entirely out of character. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) As they descended through the rockery, yellow with ragwort, they felt themselves dip into the inert, hot air of the bay. The Trespasser The grounds were said to be well planted with flowering shrubs and fruit trees and to contain lakelets and rockeries. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Pao-yü went to the back of the rockery, and stopping short, he raised his clothes. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books She was plunged in a state of ecstasy, when suddenly, from the rear of the artificial rockery, egressed a person, who approached her and facing her said, "My respects to you, sister-in-law." Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Mamma had finished building the rockery in the garden. Mary Olivier: a Life Wilson has a fine old bush of it on his rockery which abounds with shrubs of a similar character, all apparently at home. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 “I’ll play on a rockery, if you want me to,” said Mike. Mike The rockeries and trees, towers and pavilions, halls and houses are, as far as distances and density go, neither too numerous, nor too few. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The rockery in the centre of the garden would have gladdened the heart of an Ontario gardener. A Trip to Manitoba In rear of these parterres a granite rockery, festooned with ferns, wild violets, &c., raises its green gritty, rugged outline. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present In front of the cabin itself was a "rockery" of pink quartz, on which were piled elk antlers. The Claim Jumpers Exquisitely moulded islands are scattered about in the most enchanting way, all shapes and sizes, with now and then a little garden patch, and ever verdant with native woods and grasses and charming rockeries. Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist And so Jim Butcher, playing this time from the rockery end, brought off the double event and caused another new clause to be added to the local rules. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917 "I'll play on a rockery, if you want me to," said Mike. Mike and Psmith Following through a toy courtyard, among shadow hints of pigmy shrubs and rockery, they found themselves cramped in a bare, clean cell, lighted by a European lamp, but smelling of soy and Asiatics. Dragon's blood I'm going to make a rockery, ma'am, by the window. Patty at Home When at home he spent his time in pistol-shooting, making sham fights with wooden ships about the rockeries of the lake, and building ugly turrets on the battlements. Byron The country was truly an abomination of desolation, nothing but naked rockery for miles and miles, with the everlasting fire of the sun raining upon it. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II It looked close at hand, like a piece of artificial rockery, or the grey walls of a castle covered with ivy. The Naturalist in Nicaragua There were just a few traces of other buildings in the sheds and walls, and bits of carved stonework piled up in a rockery. Escape, and Other Essays The rockery was completed, and was a most imposing structure. Patty at Home In one corner stood a rockery, where a fountain played and goldfish swam in a basin. Australia Felix The mounting had been the worst part, and it had only been achieved by the help of a rockery. Huntingtower A little stream ran through the garden, and a Triton—of convict manufacture—blew his horn in the middle of a—convict built—rockery. For the Term of His Natural Life When the sheaths are done for, when the caddis worms that are too slow in making off have been eaten up, the Water beetles return to the rockery at the bottom. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography We messed away with a garage all among the wych-elm roots, and last year we enclosed a bit of the meadow and attempted a rockery. Howards End Indeed, they had every look of spontaneity, and lacked only the thing itself to turn the sky into an ocean, and Tokyo into a sea bottom with a rockery of roof. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan The rockery plants of Phoenix Park, Dublin, are insignificant compared with growths of ferns and moss On the rock ledges of Bray's Head, south of Dublin. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes After a short, stiff climb amid natural rockeries of jagged limestone, we passed under a rock archway or bridge, under which were perched frail-looking raised native huts of the watchers. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines The pipe was exposed somewhere near the foot of the rockery. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments She and her sister were sitting on the remains of Evie's rockery, where the lawn merged into the field. Howards End He enters, crosses a little damp garden where a jet of water weeps in a rockery. The Nabob The court-yard in front of the hall door at the Mount House, Darwin's birthplace and the home of his childhood, is surrounded by beds or rockeries on which lie a number of pebbles. Darwin and Modern Science I went and I finished that rockery next day, as though there wasn't a Snack in the world; cemented over the stones, I did, dabbed it green and everythink. Twelve Stories and a Dream "No one will ever write it," answered Smith, and cleared the rockery with a flying leap. Manalive It is easier to make mistakes in forming a rockery than in any other garden scheme. Elizabeth and Her German Garden 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. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Here it is a poor little plank summer-house, here it is a 'fountain' of bricks and oyster-shells, here a 'rockery,' here a 'workshop.' The World Set Free All that morning," said Mr. Brisher, "I was at it, pretending to make that rockery and wondering what I should do. Twelve Stories and a Dream Now what sort of person can that be," I asked myself, shaking my head, as I contemplated the changes before me, "who could put a rockery among vegetables and currant bushes? Elizabeth and Her German Garden This plot of ground, turned now as I saw into a rockery, had been the scene of my most untiring labours. Elizabeth and Her German Garden A rockery, of all things in the gardening world, needs consummate tact in its treatment. Elizabeth and Her German Garden |
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