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pushed back a little, and kept back for the first year, to 

 prevent it from being washed back over the walks. When 

 the edging arrive at its proper height, it will stand 

 about seven inches high, on the gravel side, and will be 

 about three inches higher than the earth in the border, 

 and will act like a little wall to keep the earth out of the 

 walks ; which, to say nothing of the difference in the 

 look, it will do as effectually as brick, or boards, or any 

 thing else, however solid. The edging ought to be clipped 

 in the winter, or very early in the spring, on both the 

 sides and at top ; a line ought to be used to regulate 

 the movements of the sheers : it ought to be clipped 

 again, in the same manner, just about Midsummer 5 and, 

 if there be a more neat and beautiful thing than this in 

 the world, all that I can say, is, that I never saw that 

 thing. 



45. There is yet one thing to notice in this laying-out 

 of the garden j namely, that there must be a shed to serve 

 as a place for depositing tools, flower- pots, and the like ; 

 and also, for the gardeners to retire to in case of rain, 

 and to do works there when they cannot do work out of 

 doors. This is a very necessary part of the garden pre- 

 mises, and ought to be sufficiently spacious not only for 

 the purposes just mentioned, but for the hanging up of 

 seeds to dry, and for various other purposes. This shed 

 ought to stand also as near to the hot-bed ground as 

 convenient, and yet it is too dissightly to be in the inside 

 of the garden. A shed about forty feet long, and about 

 seven feet wide, might suffice for this purpose ; and it 

 might stand very conveniently, as at r in the outer gar- 

 den, on the east side of the entrance at a, the back of the 



