126 ^ GARDEN PLANNING 



the score of appearance, and is highly preferable 

 to the usual cinder path, which requires that 

 an edging be provided. 



The grass path also may have its utility in 

 the flower garden, though it usually comes into 

 existence by some adventitious circumstance 

 rather than by design. A border skirting grass 

 may have opposed to it a long bed, and the 

 gardener may decide to connect the two by a 

 pergola. This at once turns the intervening 

 grass strip into a path, and a very charming 

 one, where the walker may find a tunnel of 

 greenery, his feet on verdant turf, a canopy 

 of blossom overhead. Grass edgings are used 

 in both flower and kitchen gardens, and I 

 have already referred to them by the term 

 ''verge." Each gardener will decide for him- 

 self whether the space at his disposal admits 

 of such a feature, and whether the effect to be 

 obtained from it is commensurate with the 

 labour involved in keeping it trimmed. If 

 he has any doubts in the matter he should 

 forego the verge, because, uncared for, it is 

 an unsightly and wasteful feature. 



