12 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



will be beautiful or not as a structure must depend 

 on the knowledge and good taste of the person who 

 plans it and sees it carried out. 



As mentioned elsewhere, it is both highly desirable 

 and extremely convenient to have different sections of 

 the garden for the plants from different geological 

 formations, therefore we will suppose that a portion is 

 of limestone, and another of granite, and a third of 

 sandstone with peat. If this sandstone and peat is 

 mainly in the shadiest and coolest place, and can have 

 a damp portion of a few square yards at its foot, it will 

 be all the better. Of course if a pool can be managed, 

 or the rock-garden can be on one or both banks of 

 a little stream or rill, the possibilities of beautiful 

 gardening will be endless. 



In making the dry-walling the stones should all tip 

 a little downwards at the back, and the whole face of 

 the wall should incline slightly backward, so that no 

 drop of rain is lost, but all runs into the joints. Any 

 loose earth at the back of the stones must be closely 

 rammed. If this is done there is no danger of the 

 wall bursting outward and coming down when there 

 is heavy rain. Any space backward of newly moved 

 earth behind the wall must also be rammed and made 

 firm in the same way. 



The two illustrations of a bit of dry wall freshly 

 put up give an idea of the way it is built. The one 

 containing the angle shows how the stones are tipped 

 back, while the one with the straight front shows how 

 spaces at some of the joints and between the courses 

 are left for planting. If the scheme of planting is 



