THE WALLED GARDEN 



of brick or stone built in a manner conducive to 

 charming plant growth. 



There are many beautiful gardens in Bermuda 

 famous for the wonderful walls that enclose them 

 and the luxuriant growth of tropical vegetation. The 

 wealth of trailing plants and brilliant flowers that 

 crown the high copings, flourish in earth pockets 

 and on rocky projections, makes the entire garden 

 enclosure a bower of bloom throughout the year. 

 There are other gardens in the same tropical islands 

 which serve as examples of what to avoid in wall 

 enclosures. There are high, straight, forbidding 

 gray walls, built along the street front of otherwise 

 beautiful thoroughfares; walls that shut out every 

 possible glimpse of garden beauty, that make the 

 winter visitor to this balmy land of perpetual sum- 

 mer feel that he has been cheated of his right to 

 enjoy a portion of its beauty. A single high wall, 

 with prison-like enclosures, along the front of the 

 garden, can readily ruin the charm of many adjoin- 

 ing properties. In the Bermuda gardens observing 

 the correct principles of walled enclosures a pleasing 

 type is found in which the high walls of side and 

 back gardens have the street side as well as the living- 

 room side of the barrier clothed in floral beauty. The 

 majority of these walls are built of concrete or of 

 the coral rock in irregular stone-work. White is the 



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