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winkle, which needs little soil, or ivy at some dis- 

 tance, and leading the runners past the tree, where 

 they will take root all the way, and, being dipt, 

 make a handsome appearance. The propensity of 

 ivy to run up the tree is easily counteracted ; but 

 should it be indulged, few things are more beautiful, 

 and the tree is there rather for ornament 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 parting of the roots. He- 

 patica blue and red mingled make a beautiful edg- 

 ing, 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 secure plenty of its skyblue 

 dazzling flowers. The pansy or tricoloured 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 keep- 

 ing, there is nothing so fit for a low hedge as 

 butcher's-broom ; it suffers no injury by drop or 

 shade, and grows irnmoveably strong; and not agree- 

 ing with the shears, it is in such a place more suit- 

 able in the natural sluggishness of its growth. 



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

 ing of unnecessary expense, 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, which perhaps f must be 

 brought from a considerable distance, will suffice. 



