8 JOTTINGS OF A GENTLEMAN GARDENER 



soil paths, or paths covered with coal ashes must satisfy 

 us for a season, or we shall have to go a year without flowers. 

 It is plants and flowers that count. Get them started in 

 the borders, sown in your frame (though it be only a pack- 

 ing case), and if necessary defer other tilings till later on. 

 Autumn is the time to make your paths, build your frames 

 and pits and arches. Then things can be done " as they 

 should " according to our friends, and not in the " topsy- 

 turvy manner " I suggest. 



