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kept clean as if they are blocked, and there is 
a sudden heavy fall of rain, many of the bridges 
will be washed away, In making new roads 
line them out, with a very slight rise and 
stake up every 20 or 30 yards. A Kuropean’s 
and Native’s idea of a good road is very differ- 
ent, always remember that it depends chiefly on 
the roads whether your work is hard or easy, 
as if the roads are very bad, it takes as long 
again to get from one part of the garden to 
the other, and steep roads will wear the ponies out 
in no time, so always give as much time and 
trouble as you can to make new roads. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
GARDEN IMPLEMENTS. 
A large quantity of tools of all sorts should 
be kept in stock. It is a great mistake to try to 
economise by making old tools last for years as 
bad implements mean bad work. Pruning knives 
eught to be renewed every other year, the extra 
