WALL GARDENING 



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The best time for planting is the month of September, 

 the earlier the better. Some of the plants should be 

 put in as the wall is being built, for after the wall is 

 complete it is impossible to insert those having many roots. 

 Small plants only should be used, while seeds of some 

 kinds may be sown. If mixed with a little fine moist 

 soil, the latter being put in the chinks, the seeds will 



Building a Dry Wall. The wall should slope as shown 

 in the first sketch. The second sketch illustrates 

 a wrong method of building. Overhanging rocks 

 should be avoided. 



soon germinate, and the plants will obtain a roothold 

 such as bigger ones could never hope to do. 



Flowers for the Wall. There are innumerable showy 

 and interesting plants from which to choose for the wall 

 garden. Some care is necessary in disposing those that 

 form curtains of leaf and blossom, or they will smother 

 others beneath. The Aubrietia, Arabis, Evergreen Candy- 

 tuft, Snow in Summer (Cerastium), Sun Rose (Helian- 



