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vegetable garden may find its legitimate place 

 and usefulness. The reader who has studied 

 the general principles I have applied to the 

 designing of a flower garden will have noted 

 that I advocate placing the principal flower 

 borders near the north boundary, wherever 

 that may come, and that I gave good reasons 

 for running the principal path alongside or 

 between them. Generally this path starts 

 from the house and terminates somewhere 

 at the remote end of the garden. If the vege- 

 table ground is to occupy its usual place at 

 the end of the plot, the main path may con- 

 tinue into and through it. On the other 



Fig- 55- — Borders through a vegetable garden 



hand, it may be more convenient to approach 

 the vegetable plot by an offshoot from the 



