“ IVall and Water Gardens ” 
POOL WITH FLAT CURB 
POOL WITH RAISED CURB 
the stones, how to place them so that the 
ascent may be an easy one, what joints to 
cement and what to leave open, how to end 
the steps against a bank or a dry wall and 
finally what plants will thrive best in their 
chinks and corners. Even better than telling 
how the thing is done, she gives us well- 
chosen photographs showing how it has been 
done under varying conditions. If it is a 
question of how best to arrange a border of 
hardy perennials so that there may be a suc¬ 
cession of bloom, pleasant harmonies or con¬ 
trasts in the coloring, well-disposed masses 
and an agreeable relation between the plants 
in the border and those on the wall at its 
back, no one has found a better solution than 
Miss Jekyll and no one can state her con¬ 
clusions more clearly or more attractively. 
Her many years’experience in her own garden 
where she has studied such subjects with the 
energy of an enthusiast and with the eye of 
an artist, has given her a fund of facts upon 
which to draw on all occasions. These facts 
she will not ignore, for though she has a 
lively imagination and the kindling fancy of 
the artist, she is eminently sane and never 
permits her art to transcend its inevitable 
limitations. 
So much in general, now as to the book 
just issued. It deals, as its name implies, 
with plants that find themselves at home on 
old walls with open joints, in rocky places, 
and in or near the water. It opens fresh 
glimpses of delight for those whose garden 
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