ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



to walking upon the grass borders of grav- 

 eled paths because the gravel was tiresome 

 or reflected the heat! For those, however, 

 who spend the four Winter months in the 

 country, gravelled walks are a necessity if 

 they are to be used at all. 



If they are to be gravelled, they must be 

 dug out a foot or more in depth, filled in 

 first with broken stone, then a layer of 

 coarse gravel and finally the fine gravel, 

 and all well rolled. All this having been 

 done, the gardener has only to keep tres- 

 passers from the newly-sown grass, to water 

 his garden in late afternoon and to possess 

 his soul in peace until, when a month has 

 slowly passed, he will find the beds covered 

 with the sturdy green shoots of the new 

 plants, the Box-edging putting forth tender 

 leaves, the grass a velvet carpet, and he can 

 then bid his friends come to see the new 

 garden and picture to them its future 

 beauties, which imagination has already 

 painted upon his mind. 

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