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A clean, well-shaven lawn spreading between borders 

 presents a beautiful appearance; the plants grow more 

 naturally in their frame of grass. The old objection to 

 damp paths for the weeder is done away with since the 

 stout boot and the rubber shoe have been worn. The 

 borders of hardy flowers pushing into the lawn, even the 

 most lowly the daisies, cowslips, primulas, arabis, myo- 

 sotis seem to weave color into the border of green. 



John Sedding, a prince of gardeners, decided a path 

 should be wide and excellently made. It should lead 

 directly from one point to another, and if it curved there 

 should be a genuine reason for diverting its course, a 

 reason defended by art or demanded by nature. A clump 

 of shrubs, a rise of the land, or an obstruction by floral 

 mound, fountain, or sundial is sufficient to bend a path, 

 that it may be made more graceful in its course. 



The eye is better satisfied with definite boundaries, and 

 seclusion being one of the virtues of a garden, a hedge, 

 stone wall, or shrubbery may inclose it as a frame does 

 a picture. Here and there should be places for real 

 retirement and privacy, which can be secured by an 

 arrangement of beds, arbors, or shrubbery. A distant 

 view through an arch to the landscape beyond is a pretty 

 addition, and every means should be employed so to 

 deceive the eye that, although seclusion is secured, a 

 narrowed feeling is prevented. 



The edging of beds is easily effected by allowing the 



