15 FEBRUARY 1957, Page 29

ROCKERY CARE One of the almost imperceptible things that hap-

pens to a rockery in winter is that the soil gets washed away and fined down. It is a good plan to re-dress the whole area with loam to which sand and leaf mould may be added. Never remove small stones from a rockery in order to tidy it up, for there is no more certain way of encouraging the washing-out of the soil and the loosening of the larger stones.