How to manage a Garden 



We find borders certainly under walls, a position eminently 

 suited to them, but we find them also skirting belts of 

 shrubs, and on either side of walks, or with an artificial 

 background of pillars, &c., in almost any position. Nor 

 is it essential that their outline should be perfectly straight, 

 or their width in all cases uniform. This would prove 

 monotonous and would be a blemish on the laying out. 

 It should, in fact, be contrived to have a curved outline 



FIG. 19. Border with straight path. 

 A Wall. B Border. C Grass. D Path. E Hedge. 



such as is shown in Fig. 17. If against a walk the walk 

 may either conform to the outline of the bed, as is shown 

 in Fig. 1 8, or it may run straight, the space between the 

 edges of the border and of the walk being lawn, as in 

 Fig. 19. A grass verge of at least a foot wide should 

 in all cases be left when the border skirts the walk, as it 

 is a very pleasing feature, and a lawn-mower can be 

 very quickly run over it once a week to keep it in ideal 

 condition. 



