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masonry built of half-formed or half-rotting stone, and 

 of loose joints made to receive rather than to repel 

 every drop of welcome rain. Wall-flowers are lime- 

 loving plants, so the stones would be set in a loose bed 

 of pounded mortar-rubbish, and there would be sloping 

 banks, half wall half bank. I should, of course, take 

 care that the lines of the garden should be in suitable 

 relation to other near portions, a matter that could 

 only be determined on the precise spot that might be 

 available. 



But for the planting, or rather the sowing of the 

 main spaces, there would be Uttle difficulty. I should 

 first sow a packet of a good strain of blood-red single 

 Wall-flower, spreading it over a large stretch of the 

 space. Then a packet of a good yellow, either the 

 Belvoir or the Bedfont, then the purple, and then one of 

 the newer pale ones that have flowers of a colour between 

 ivory-white and pale bufl'-yellow. I would keep the 

 sowings in separate but informal drifts, each kind 

 having its share, though not an equal share, of wall 

 and bank and level. Some spaces nearest the eye 

 should be filled with the small spreading Alpine Wall- 

 flowers and their hybrids, but these are best secured 

 from cuttings. The only ones I know of this class are 

 Cheiranthus alpinus, whose colour is a beautiful clear 

 lemon-yellow ; CheirantMis mutahilis, purple, changing 

 to orange ; and Cheiranthus Marshalli, the deep orange- 

 coloured hybrid of C. cdjpinus. Seed of C. alpinus 

 ought to be obtainable, though I have not tried to 



