The Winnin ge Designs 
by eliminating the grass slopes in favour of a little wall 
garden, built of stones laid simply in soil, and planted 
with suitable trailing and creeping plants. The advan- 
tages of this would be that the width occupied by the 
slope would become part of the border on the south 
side, and could be left as a narrow border on top of 
the wall on the north side. I illustrate by a sectional 
drawing this alteration. 
Not the least of the attractions that would be intro- 
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saved by creating walls 
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SECTION THROUGH ‘DRY’? RETAINING WALL. 
duced into the garden scheme by thus sinking the lawn 
would be the increased dignity and interest that would 
be added to the design by the construction of some 
simple steps. Simple stone steps, with careful and 
tasteful planting, are amongst the most attractive 
features in a garden, always providing they are not 
used in such a way that it looks as if they were intro- 
duced merely for the sake of having steps. 
There are three features in this design that I think 
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