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as to give the appearance of breadth, by making 

 curving lines across the narrow strip. 



If your garden is on a very steep slope, I strongly 

 advise you to make it into terraces, for there is 

 nothing more disagreeable than to be always climb- 

 ing up or down very steep paths, and it makes 

 your garden useless for elderly or invalid people. 

 The terraces need by no means be stiff, but may 

 be made any shape that is convenient, one little 

 garden leading to another, by long easy steps or 

 by gentle slopes. 



If your garden is surrounded with park land, 

 you will, of course, have great scope for leaving 

 beautiful views of distant trees, etc., as well as for 

 making charming bits of garden for special flowers, 

 or special effects, such as a dell of Ehododendrons 

 and Azaleas ; or a Eose walk, using all the briars 

 and hardy climbing roses to grow in rampant pro- 

 fusion. Wherever your garden melts into the 

 park land, or the Common, do not be content to 

 let an ugly iron fence mark the boundary, but 

 make a ha-ha where such a thing would be suit- 

 able, or, if you must have a fence, conceal it as far 

 as you can by plantations. 

 Whatever is the size or shape of your garden, 



