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privacy is sGC^^l■ed ; the cft'ect of any flowers contained in the 

 garden is heightened ; and histly, the heavier clouds of dust are 

 kept out in summer, for so well are the railings covered by 

 planting the Ivy rather thickly, and giving it some rich light 



soil to grow in, that a dense screen is soon formed. Ivy-edgings 

 also make excellent margins to beds on grass-lawns. In this 

 case one would have thought the verdant carpet of turf suflicient, 

 and so it is, if tlie subjects lill the IhmI properly and conie flush 



