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districts where it is cheap, if used in pieces at 

 least one inch thick, it is durable and efficient; 

 but its colour is unpleasing, and I cannot com- 

 mend it for the flower garden on that account. 

 For the vegetable ground it is quite admirable. 



Fig. 68. Stone edgings (sections) 



The least expensive kind of edging is the 

 common flint, and on the score of appearance 

 and stability it leaves little to be desired. It 

 should be bedded deeply, and the flints should 

 be large ones. The practice common in some 

 districts of whitening flint edgings gives them 

 too much prominence, and on that account I 

 do not favour it. 



When a bed or border is to be raised above 

 the general level the edging may be built up 

 of flints or brickbats. 



There is no special virtue in the flint, apart 

 from its abundance and ubiquity. In districts 

 where other natural stone is common it may be 

 used in rough pieces in the same way as flints, 

 with equally good effect. 



