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ing snails and other animals which prey upon 

 our culinary plants. Still I am not sure that I 

 would not put up with the havoc of these ma- 

 rauders to enjoy the solid green outlines and the 

 air of old-world methods these edgings suggest. 



There are other modes of associating the 

 vegetable garden with the flower ground. 

 When the whole plot is wide in relation to 

 its length, it may be convenient to reserve 

 a strip of ground along one or both sides for 

 kitchen garden purposes, and in that event the 

 treatment may be based upon the design here 

 illustrated, the object, as before, being to retain 

 a certain decorative quality without detriment 

 to practical requirements. The method of doing 

 this is made sufficiently clear by the diagram. 



If space and other conditions suit, there is 

 no objection to cutting off the kitchen from 

 the flower garden entirely by a separating 

 hedge; because in the case under consideration 

 there would be little gained by blending the 

 two, since the additional vista so obtained, 

 being in a transverse direction, is compara- 

 tively short. In selecting the site for the 

 kitchen garden the question of aspect must 

 not be overlooked, particularly as it affects 



