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should Toe insGrted half their depth in the soil, and form a very useful and 

 ornamental division between the walk and the border: a small movable 

 wooden step should be used whenever it is necessary for the barrow to pass 

 over them. A broad grass-walk, also, down the centre, or elsewhere in the 

 kitchen-garden, may be made to contribute much to the beauty of it, by 

 having rows of well-trained pyramidal pear-trees planted on each side, with 

 standard rose-trees in the intervals between the pears, and in a line about two 

 feet nearer than they are to the centre of the walk ; wire arches, with roses 

 over them, may in different places be thrown across the gravel walks without 

 at all interfering with the general purpose of the garden, and with a very 

 pleasing effect. Crocuses, narcissi, and daffodils near the edging-tiles will 

 make the walks gay in the spring. The piers of the walls also, without at all 

 interfering with the fruit-trees, may have many pretty flowering-shrubs, &c. 

 trained up them. 



739. North Borders.— K north border under a south wall in a garden is 

 generally much undervalued. In the flower-garden, a north wall, if it happens 

 to exist, is frequently looked upon as a nuisance, and covered with ivy ; in the 

 kitchen-garden it is only more profitably occupied by Morello cherries and 

 red-currants, while, in both cases, the border is kept as shallow as possible, 

 and turned to little or no account. Many plants and shrubs, however, will 

 flourish upon a north border and against a north wall, and show themselves 

 hardy there, which in any other situation would not outlive a winter's frost. 

 In the flower-garden let the north wall have a good deep border of bog, and 

 against the wall all the hardy sorts of camellias will flourish and blossom freely. 

 The green and black tea-plant also, not having their bark exposed to the 

 scorching sun of summer, will survive our severest winters in such a situation. 

 Ehododendrons will also do well, and so will chrysanthemums. All our hardy 

 indigenous ferns do better upon a north border than under any other aspect. 

 Those persons who wish to acclimatize any tender plants should, by all means, 

 make their first experiments upon a north border or against a south wall. 

 The shady side of a south wall is decidedly the best position for all cuttings 

 during spring and summer, to enable them to stand the severity of winter, 



740. Basins and TanJcs.— Both, in flower and kitchen-gardens tanks are not 

 only useful, but may be nxade exceedingly ornamental. The position should 

 be in the centre of the broad gi-ass-walk. A simple tank of this kind may be 

 made by digging out the soil in a circle four feet deep, and puddling it all 

 round with tempered clay, that is, clay thoroughly washed and kneaded, until 

 divested of all silicious soil, and nothing but pure clay remains : this well 

 rammed round the whole excavation for nine or 10 inches, is impervious to 

 ■water. Large stones, or boulders of handsome shape, placed with apparent 

 irregularity, but i*eal symmetry, all round, will form a handsome and useful 

 basin • and if some of the more delicate water-plants, as Arums and other 

 Nympheo;, are planted in the bottom, as directed at paragraph 224, a good 

 effect will be produced. 



741. Trellis-icork may frequently be introduced with good efiect in the 



