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and cultivate a close little hedge of it, a foot or 

 more high, about every bed, even such as are 

 devoted to vegetables. Borders are needed 

 when the beds are surrounded by graveled walks, 

 but not when they are merely openings in the 

 grass. They belong to the formal garden, and 

 spaces cut in the lawn are less formal in their 

 aspect. The delicious old gardens at Mount Ver- 

 non, that have been growing more beautiful since 

 George Washington cultivated them, illustrate 

 the use of borders. The beds are so sunk in box 

 that they suggest being packed in boxes. They 

 heighten the pleasant primness of a formal gar- 



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