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your path to be, every few feet, to get the other 

 side correct. 



EDGING OF PATHS OB BEDS. 

 Where the walks or paths are of grass, or where 

 they are of gravel running through grass, you will 

 not require any edging ; but where you have a 

 gravel path with borders or beds against it, some 

 sort of edging is a necessity, and the prettiest kind 

 of edging is small-sized bits of stone, irregular in 

 form, fixed firmly into the edge of the border, 

 against which the small front plants can nestle; 

 but if you are in a part of the country where 

 stone is difficult to get and very expensive, you 

 may have some of the edging tiles which are sold 

 for this purpose ; or bricks put in at an angle, one 

 overlapping another ; or failing any of these things, 

 ordinary big flint stones which can probably be dug 

 up out of your own ground will do very well. 

 Some people like an edging of box, but I do not 

 advise this, as it makes a hiding-place for slugs and 

 snails, requires a great deal of attention to keep it 

 quite as it should be, and also, I think, it gives a 

 great sameness to the border, for it prevents one 

 from seeing the beauty and variety of the smaller 

 flowers which should be at the edge of the bed. 



