THE WALL GARDEN 



A WALL garden is a perpendicular 

 rock garden. But whereas a rock 

 garden is of all things irregular, a wall 

 garden has regularity. The wall need not 

 be a straight line; it is better that one 

 end should describe a curve, and rocks at 

 the base may give it further irregularity. 

 Yet it can never quite lose the air of 

 man's handiwork. The prime object of 

 the gardening on it is to reduce this air 

 to a minimum. 



The way to make a wall garden is to 

 build a dry wall of rough stones that is, 

 a wall without mortar. Instead use soil 

 and pack it tight in every crevice as well 

 as behind the stones, which should be tilted 

 back a little to carry water into the soil. 



This tilting may be accomplished with 

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