DRY-WALLED TERRACE GARDEN 5 



teen feet. I would have the path six feet wide, allow- 

 ing an extra foot for the rooting of plants next the 

 wall ; then there would be a seven-foot width for the 

 border, planted with bushy things towards its outer 

 edge, which will be the top of the wall of the next 

 terrace below. These would be mostly bushes of 

 moderate growth, such as Lavender, Rosemary, Ber- 

 beris, and Pyrus japonica, with the plants suitable for 

 partly hanging over the face of the wall. Among these 

 would be Forsythia suspensa, Phlomis fruticosa (Jeru- 

 salem Sage), and the common Barberry, so beautiful 

 with its coral-like masses of fruit in October, its half- 

 weeping habit of growth, and its way of disposing its 

 branches in pictorial masses. There would also be Des- 

 modium penduliflorum, and above all the many kinds of 

 Roses that grow and flower so kindly in such a posi- 

 tion. No one can know till they try how well many 

 sorts of Roses will tumble over walls and flower in 

 profusion. Rosa lucida and Scotch Briers come over 

 a wall nearly five feet high, and flower within a foot 

 from the ground ; Rosa wichuraiana hangs over in a 

 curtain of delicate white bloom and polished leafage. 

 There is a neat and pretty evergreen form of R. sem- 

 pervirens from Southern Italy, in leaf and habit not 

 unlike wichuraiana^ but always more shy of flower, 

 which hangs over in masses, and in warm exposures 

 flowers more freely than on the flat. If one had to 

 clothe the face of a wall twelve feet high with hanging 

 wreathes of flowering Roses, there is a garden form 

 of R. arvensis that, planted at the top, will climb and 

 scramble either up or down, and will ramble through 



