THE CITY YARD 



make It of gravel, If you have the say so, and It 

 certainly agrees best with the ground, so far as 

 appearances go. Stone and brick, though ugly, 

 have their advantages : weeds and grass do not 

 grow on them, It costs no trouble to keep them 



Fig. io. — I, Flower-beds; 2, trees. 



clean, they are not kicked up and put Into dis- 

 array by heavy or shuffling feet, and they are a 

 check against weeds In the borders. It Is not 

 easy to repress the grass when It has no greater 

 obstacle than gravel, which will be moistened In 

 the showerlngs, but It stops when it touches as- 

 phalt or flagstones. And if you would avoid 

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