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Show Great Flowering Rock Wall. ; A wall 1,300 feet long, 4 feet high and 3 feet thick at the bottom has Ljust been completed on a country estate es-tate near Port Chester. New York, under un-der the direction of Samuel Parsons., who says that it is unique. The granite gran-ite blocks which form the wall were quarried about 50 miles away and were used just as they came from the quarry. The interstices have been filled with loam and mold and planted profusely with such flowering herbs And creepers as will flourish best and look prettiest in that environment. The stones are all large from three tons down and from 3 to 10 feet long and fitted as closely as they could be without the use of any other tool than a hammer to knock off the rough edges. |