BOULDER WALL WITH VINES 
(SEE PLAN NO. 6) 
GOOD opportunity for using vines as a covering is afforded by a 
rough boulder wall bordering a highway. In the case selected 
here an entrance of four back-pointed boulder piers gives a 
chance to plant some of the close-clinging vines upon them, but the rough 
wall itself is hidden by scrambling vines planted at the back and allowed 
to droop forward and over. 
We may suppose a forty-foot highway with an eight-foot planting 
space occupied by young Pin Oaks planted forty feet apart. A five-foot 
sidewalk extends between the planting space and the property line. To 
give the vines room we shall set the wall about five feet back from the 
property line, the strip to be kept in mown lawn. Beyond the wall the 
main lawn soon begins, with its trees, shrubbery, and open spaces. To 
hide the back of the wall, as seen from the house, and the soil hump and 
the bases of the vines, a narrow, irregular belt of shrubbery is suggested 
upon the lawn. These features are not a part of the present plan since 
we are considering the wall planting only; they are merely added to make 
the problem more concrete. 
The vines are planted in groups of three or four of a kind, from three 
to five feet apart, depending on their vigor, and they are allowed to grow 
as they will, care being taken to keep them off the lawn and shrubbery, 
and from falling forward upon the sidewalk. To accomplish this we 
prune in winter, cutting back the long shoots, or tying them over open 
spaces on the wall. 
The section and elevation on the plan give sufficient graphic instruc- 
tions for construction, while the planting plan and kev indicate the 
arrangement. Neither end of the wall is shown in the plan; we may sup- 
pose that the wall is more than four hundred feet long, and that a similar 
planting is carned to its limits. 
Arrangement as to texture, growth, and flower color, can be studied 
from the plan. Each group has a definite part to play in the whole 
planting. In a general way the purpose is to give a refined effect with 
flowering vines near the entrance, with coarser material at a distance; 
there is both repetition and variety in leaf effect, and in height and habit. 
A planting similar to this will give a pleasing picture to the eye and joy 
to the heart of the garden lover every day in the year. 
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