. The rock garden. Rock gardens. 40 Essential Structural Details Apart, too, from the sympathetic and nourishing effects of natural rock, are the addled advantages of larger cavities, greater grit and soil spaces, than would be possible in brickwork. To the plants these have an importance of their own. The Set-Baok Ledge.—In the process of building up the planting face of the wall, three things are abso- lutely essential. These are: (i) a slight dip or tilt of each stone from front to back (see Fig. 20) to carry water to the roots of the plants; (2) the set-back ledge. Fig. 19.—Elevation of a
. The rock garden. Rock gardens. 40 Essential Structural Details Apart, too, from the sympathetic and nourishing effects of natural rock, are the addled advantages of larger cavities, greater grit and soil spaces, than would be possible in brickwork. To the plants these have an importance of their own. The Set-Baok Ledge.—In the process of building up the planting face of the wall, three things are abso- lutely essential. These are: (i) a slight dip or tilt of each stone from front to back (see Fig. 20) to carry water to the roots of the plants; (2) the set-back ledge. Fig. 19.—Elevation of a Dry Wall. The shaded parts represent soil; the crosses indicate positions for plants. or front of the stone so that the one immediately below it intercepts rain or applied water; and, (3) that all spaces or crevices between stones be filled up with soil as the work proceeds. At the back of the stone work, and between it and the concrete retaining wall, a soil cavity not more than three inches wide might be arranged, and if charged with pulverised rock, old ceil- ing plaster, grit and loam in about equal parts, there will be presented to the roots of plants, in modified degree, the indeterminable fissure of the mountain, the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jenkins, Edmund Howard, 1856-1921. London, Country life, ltd. [etc. ]; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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