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touch which can be recommended is to set the stones 

 in a slanting direction as if they had been forced up 

 in that manner and to make one or more of the edges 

 stand out conspicuously, which gives the whole a 

 more picturesque and bold aspect." 1 



There are few things more beautiful in a park or 

 garden than an old wall treated with rock plants in an 

 intelligent manner. 



"A grand old wall is a precious thing in a garden, 

 and many are the ways of treating it. If it is an 

 ancient wall of great thickness, built at a time when 

 neither was work shirked nor material stinted, even 

 if many of the joints are empty, the old stone or 

 brick stands firmly bonded, and, already two or three 

 hundred years of age, seems likely to endure well into 

 the future centuries. In such a wall wild plants will 

 already have made themselves at home, and we may 

 only have to put a little earth and a small plant into 

 some cavity, or earth and seed into a narrow open 

 joint, to be sure of a good reward. Often grasses 

 and weeds rooting in the hollow places can be raked 

 out and their spaces refilled with better things. 

 When wild things grow in walls they always dispose 

 themselves in good groups; such groups as without 

 their guidance it would have been difficult to devise 

 intentionally." 2 



1 Prince Puckler, Hints on Landscape Gardening. 

 3 Gertrude Jekyl, Wall and Water Gardens. 



