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vision of the garden which usually accompanies each 

 side of a walk. In fact, any bed which acts as a 

 boundary to a walk or grass-plot, or the main quar- 

 ters of a garden may be properly described as a 

 border. 



"Flower-borders should be well drained. In plot- 

 ting them it must be remembered that if narrow no 

 art will impart to them an air of boldness. If the 

 pleasure grounds are small, narrow borders are per- 

 missible. All flower-borders should be made in pro- 

 portion to the size of the garden and other sur- 

 roundings. Neatness must be the presiding deity 

 over flower-borders; and no application of the hoe 

 and rake, no removal of decayed leaves, no tying up 

 of straggling members can be too unremitting." 1 



According to Lawson, the borders "should be 

 roses, thyme, lavender, rosemary, hyssop, sage and 

 such like and filled with cowslips, primroses, violets, 

 Daffy-do wn-dil lies, sweet Sissely, Go-to-bed-at- 

 noon, and all sweet flowers; and, chief of all, with 

 gilliflowers, July-flowers, commonly called gilli- 

 flowers or clove July-flowers (I call them so be- 

 cause they flower in July) ; they have the names of 

 cloves of their scent. I may well call them the King 



1 Johnson's "Gardener's Dictionary and Cultural Instructor," 

 edited by Eraser and Hemsley (London, 1917). 



