IRISH GARDENING. 



By this time our cement floor has set. and 

 we have got two or three good coats of paint on 

 all the woodwork. 



The back wall is now our first care. It must 

 eventuallv be covered with ferns, and usually they 



We will suppose the wire netting is 3 feet wide. 

 Now get some scds of turf such as are used for 

 fuel. Select the softer brown kind, as even in 

 shape as possible. Measure down from the top 

 of the wall and mark on it the number of widths 



Berberis stenophvlla 

 ■ {See Hedge Plants) 



are given no chance at all in such a position. We 

 cannot work at it well after the rockery is made, 

 so it must be done first. Get enough wire (rabbit) 

 netting of about one inch mesh to cover all that 

 part of the wall to be left exposed by the rockery 



of wire that will be required. Then along the 

 lou-cr line of the last width, nail to the wall, with 

 the largest wire-nail spikes, the turf sods, end to 

 end, two nails in each, leaving about half an inchbe- 

 tween each sod Just before driving home the nail, 



