WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



CHAPTER I 



THE DRY-WALLED TERRACE GARDEN 



Many a garden has to be made on a hillside more or 

 less steep. The conditions of such a site naturally 

 suggest some form of terracing, and in connection 

 with a house of modest size and kind, nothing is 

 prettier or pleasanter than all the various ways of 

 terraced treatment that may be practised with the help 

 of dry-walling, that is to say, rough wall-building 

 without mortar, especially where a suitable kind of 

 stone can be had locally. 



It is well in sharply-sloping ground to keep the 

 paths as nearly level as may be, whether they are in 

 straight lines or whether they curve in following the 

 natural contour of the ground. Many more beautiful 

 garden-pictures may be made by variety in planting 

 even quite straightly terraced spaces than at first 

 appears possible, and the frequent flights of steps, 

 always beautiful if easy and well proportioned, will be 

 of the greatest value. When steps are built in this 

 kind of rough terracing the almost invariable fault is 

 that they are made too steep and too narrow in the 



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