WALL GARDENS. 



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and a source of lasting pleasure to the ar- 

 tist — the greatest of all artists, who has 

 thus learned to paint in living colours. 



Such a result is within the reach 

 of almost everyone. As already said, all 

 that is needed is a wall 



waii M oarden. dee P enough to permit 

 the storage of moisture 

 within it. The best of all are retaining or 

 terrace walls, because the soil which they 

 buttress on one side secures a constant 

 and regular moisture. With such a wall 

 one has only to make a cleft where not 

 already existing, and insert the roots of 

 the plant together with a little moss, 

 sphagnum, and rather heavy soil, fixing 

 the whole by means of some rough stone 

 fragments where necessary. For lime- 

 stone walls care must be taken to select 

 plants that love limestone soils. Often it 

 is enough to sow the seeds of kinds that 

 are easily raised in that way, such as Eri- 

 nus, Linaria alpina, Draba, Dianthus, 

 Helici72themum, Sec. When sown in a 

 compact soil these plants will in a few 

 years give such a wall-garden as to sur- 

 prise those who do not know how easily 

 such beauty may be called into being. 

 The best aspect for the wall-garden is 

 either east or west, but a north or south 

 wall can be used as there are a certain 

 number of plants that thrive in constant 

 sun or constant shade ; still, the greater 

 number of wall plants prefer to face east 

 or west. 



In the Jardin alpin d'acclimatation 

 at Geneva we have created a wall-garden 

 which is the admiration 



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Wall Plants for Ot Visitors. It IS Simply 

 Sunshine. ^ ^ Q ^ greenhouse 



covered inside and out with rock plants 



in great variety and gay with flowers from 

 one year's end to another. Already in 

 February we have the flowers of Saxi- 

 fragaBurseriana&nd oppositifolia,L)?~a- 

 ba aizoicles and Androsace Laggerz\ and 

 in December we had clusters of Antir- 

 rhinum glutinosnm. The plants which 

 do best on the sunny side of the wall are 



WALL GARDEN (SANDSTONE), SUSSEX. 

 (Photographed in the first year of its formation.) 



the Acantholimon in variety and all the 

 iEthionemas, with Alyssum alpestre, 

 montanum, pyrenaicicm, ?~epens, specio- 

 sum, saxatile, sp'mosn?n, and JV ulfhiia- 

 ?2um; also Androsace arachnoidea, Lag- 

 geri, lanugi7iosa, sempervivoides, villosa, 

 ciliata, Helvetica, and vitaliana, and 

 Antirrhinums of all kinds, but especially 



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