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like the Cheddar^ Pink, established on the walls at 

 Oxford, many Stonecrops, Houseleeks, the Purple Rock 

 Cress^arulArabia^ 



In the gardens at Great Tew, in Oxfordshire, the 

 charming Balearic Sandwort, which usually roots over 

 the moist surface of stones, planted itself high up on 

 a wall in a small recess, where half a brick had been 

 displaced. It is suggestive, as so many things are, 

 of the many plants that may be grown on walls. 



A mossy old wall, or ruin, gives a home for many 

 rock -plants which no specially- prepared situation 



CHEDDAR PINK, SAJKIFRAGE, AND FEENS, on cottage wall at MeUs, Somerset 



equals; but even on well-preserved walls we can 

 establish rock-plants which year after year will repay 

 us for their planting or sowing. Those who have 

 observed how dwarf plants grow on the mountains, 

 or on stony ground, must have seen in what hard 

 places many flourish, fine tufts sometimes springing 



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