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whole estate, such as you see everywhere in England ! It will be a 

 long time before every country roadway in America is an unbroken 

 vista of high walls and hedges. I doubt if we shall ever come to 

 that, for it implies the aristocratic spirit, while garden and 

 retaining walls do not. But whenever it is necessary to build a 

 wall around any property and it is impossible to plant vines above, 

 my advice is this : Plant flowering vines wherever there is plenty 

 of sun, and on the shady walls plant English ivy and climbing 

 euonymus not the trifling variegated kinds of euonymus, which 

 fall an easy prey to San Jose scale, but the green, round-leaved 

 kind (Euonymus radicans var. vegetus), which eventually is gar- 

 landed with red berries that are full of cheer all winter. Of 

 these two evergreens we can hardly get too much ; for never in the 

 North will they thrive as wantonly as in England, and never will 

 our climate deal as lovingly with architecture as the English mosses, 

 lichens, and algae. We shall have to plant millions of climbing 

 euonymus and millions upon millions of English ivy before 

 American roadsides may attain the classic dignity and beauty of 

 old England. 



SEVEN REASONS FOR HIGH WALLS 



Meanwhile every one of us who owns a bit of sloping land can 

 make a retaining wall that shall be a perennial vision of floral beauty. 

 Every one who wishes to soften the newness or hardness of archi- 

 tecture may do so by planting vines or by sowing the seeds of 

 cranny-loving flowers. And every one who can afford high brick 

 walls around his garden should have them for the following 

 reasons : 



1. They will protect the fruit from thieves. 



2. They will enable you to grow figs in the North, and the 

 new race of hardy citrus fruits that will soon be here. 



