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on page 256. Ageratum is a satisfactory edging. 

 Thyme is of ancient use, but rather unmanageable ; 

 one garden owner has set his edgings of Money- 

 wort, otherwise Creeping-jenny. I should be loth 

 to use Moneywort as an edging ; I would not care 



Parterre and Clipped Box at Hampton. 



for its yellow flowers in that place, though I find 

 them very kindly and cheerful on dull banks or in 

 damp spots, under the drip of trees and eaves, or 

 better still, growing gladly in the flower pot of the 

 poor. I fear if Moneywort thrived enough to 

 make a close, suitable edging, that it would thrive 

 too well, and would swamp the borders with its un- 



