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the wall maintains the moisture in the former 

 more evenly, as it makes them really extensions 

 of it rather than detached portions. Very often 

 no earth whatsoever will show in the cranny 

 where a plant sets up its abode, the root hold 

 being wholly back of the stones. 



The stone or flagged garden is first cousin to 

 the wall garden, differing in being horizontal for 

 one thing, and in having well-opened interstices 

 between its stones as these rest on the earth, in 

 which low, spreading, trailing plants fijid place. 

 As these overrun the stones here and there and 

 fill the earth spaces with their tufty greens and 

 various interesting forms, an effect altogether 

 simple and quaint and lovely results; and for 

 intimate and close relation with a dwelling such 

 a garden, entered directly from a room perhaps 

 and inclosed with a low wall, is one of the out- 

 of-the-ordinary things woj-th having. Quite as 

 effective in another way is it as a remote feature 

 hidden away from the house and from every- 

 thing else, to be come upon unexpectedly and 

 loitered in — under the shade of over-hanging 

 trees perhaps, or of vines held aloft by some 

 simple form of arbor. 



To come again to the rockery, too often mis- 

 taken especially in the generation going by, for 

 an ornament — as well as mistakenly called a 



