60 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



for the wall-plants having their roots always cool seem 

 to grow away quickly at once, and yet to be longer- 

 lived than their own brother plants in the more level 

 garden. 



Indeed, wall-gardening is not only extremely in- 

 teresting and soon rewarding, but it seems to quicken 

 the inventive faculty ; for if one has once tasted its 

 pleasures and mastered some of the simpler ways of 

 adapting it for use, others are sure to present them- 

 selves, and a whole new region of discursive delights 

 offers itself for the mental exploration of the horti- 

 culturally inventive. One after another, pleasant 

 schemes come to mind, soon to be fashioned, with 

 careful design and such manual skill as may have 

 been acquired, into such simple things of beauty 

 and delight as this first flower-walled and then Vine- 

 shaded pleasant pathway. 



Besides the wall-gardening that may be designed 

 and reared, there is also that which is waiting to be 

 done in walls that are already in being. Sometimes 

 there is an old wall from whose joints the surface 

 mortar has crumbled and fallen. Such a wall as is 

 shown in the illustration is indeed a treasure, for its 

 rugged surface can soon be jewelled with the choicest 

 of mural vegetation. 



But so good a chance is not for every garden, for 

 often the wall that one would wish to make the home 

 of many a lovely plant is of the plainest brick or stone, 

 and the mortar joints are fairly sound. Still the ardent 

 wall-gardener is not to be daunted, for, armed with a 

 hammer and a bricklayer's cold chisel, he knocks out 



