A Great Rock Garden The popular and pleasant habit of
throwing private gardens open to the public for a small fee on particular days has been adopted by the C.P.R.E. ; and this Council has chosen one of the most interesting of English gardens. The address is Hascombe Place, Godalming. Mr. Macdonnell (author of England, Their England) has succeeded that great and original gardener Mr. Charles Musgrave, who made there an incom- parable collection of Alpines and, what is more, provaii his skill in garden design. The date is June 16th and the pike of admission ls. It is almost impossible to visit any garden and not acquire hints, however different our own either in scope or quality. It was near Godalming, a great gardening centre, that Mr. Clutton-Brock, one of the finest of garden critics, made a rock garden. I well remember him standing in front of a huge clump of lithospermtun and claiming that it was the best of all rock plants. He referred to the dark blue (very common in the Pyrennees) not the more popular " Heavenly
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