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the kind that is used on tarred roofs. For this 

 gravel make a bed of one and a half inches of 

 clay on top of the stone filling and roll the first 

 dressing well in. Finish off with two inches of a 

 smaller size and keep it loosened up with an iron 



Lavender. 



rake. Paths made of white gravel are a good fin- 

 ish for the garden, not quite as good, as brick for 

 the colour does not combine so well with the flow- 

 ers, but much better than bluestone which is poor 

 stuff; the colour is bad and its associations com- 

 monplace. The coarse is painful to walk on, and 

 the fine screenings dirty and sticky after a rain. 



