PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



prevailing color for all garden "walls among the 

 beautiful estates perched on the green hillsides over- 

 looking the ocean, even the plaster and concrete 

 walls having powdered white coral rock used in place 

 of sand. 



The treatment of the higher enclosures of con- 

 crete construction is as admirably carried out as 

 that of the stone walls built of the white rock. 

 Instead of a wall with delightful small plants 

 flourishing in cracks and crannies between the stones, 

 the high concrete wall has a luxuriant growth of the 

 enduring "life plant" along its upper coping, seem- 

 ingly living on air and moisture alone, with its numer- 

 ous green feet clinging to the wall and nourished 

 by its moisture. At the base of the smooth-surface 

 walls all sorts of thrifty climbers are planted pre- 

 ferably those which bloom throughout the long tropi- 

 cal seasons, and these are carefully trained to cover 

 the wall on both sides. Lattice is seldom used to 

 support the trailers and climbers along the Bermuda 

 walls, the moisture-loving plants prefer to cling 

 directly to the cool surface, and the high barriers with 

 their green draperies remain from year to year with 

 little change in their beauty. 



Where there is a choice of materials for wall 

 building, there is no necessity for sameness in our 

 garden closures. And there is no longer any con- 



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