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being dipt, make a handsome appearance. The 

 propensity of ivy to run up the tree is easily coun- 

 teracted : but should it be indulged, few things are 

 more beautiful, and the tree is there rather for or- 

 nament than for the value of its timber. Double- 

 daisy and cowslips may be used, and may be kept 

 any length of time by occasional lifting and part- 

 ing of the roots. Hepatica blue and red mingled 

 make a beautiful edging, and will last an age ; but 

 the most brilliant of all is dwarf-gentian : it lasts 

 long, but must have half a foot in breadth to se- 

 cure plenty of its sky blue dazzling flowers. The 

 pansy or tricoulered violet is also fine, but must be 

 replanted every year. For any place where the 

 walk gets amongst high shrubs or trees, or where 

 a sloping bank is of difficult keeping, there is 

 nothing so fit for a low hedge as butcherVbroom; 

 it suffers no injury by drop or shade, and grows 

 immoveably strong ; and not agreeing with the 

 shears, it is in such a place more suitable in the 

 natural sluggishness of its growth. 



In the graveling of walks, any rule for the avoid- 

 ing of unnecessary expence, and the subsequent 

 trouble of weeding, must be a desirable object. Let 

 the top stratum of stones be such as are raked from 

 the surface of the garden in dry weather, and made 

 perfectly clean by sifting; which is by far the 

 readiest way of getting quit of them in clearing 

 the ground. By such method, the top stratum 

 being of small stones, much less gravel, whieh 

 perhaps must be brought from a considerable dis- 



