CHAPTER XVII 



Tile and Other Artificial Edgings 



These nave a wider application than the 

 living plant edgings just noticed, and they are 

 a necessity in a well-kept garden. When turf 

 and soil or turf and gravel come into juxta- 

 position the clean-cut edge of the turf consti- 

 tutes a good enough edging. The case is 

 different where soil and gravel meet. The 

 qualities which should distinguish a good 

 edging are durability (both as regards resis- 

 tance to weather influence and accidental 

 fracture); flexibility, to permit it to be laid 

 in a good curve if necessary; stability, to enable 

 it to keep in place; and, lastly, moderate cost. 



Tile Edgings — These may be just plain 

 roofing tiles, or special edging tiles with a 

 "fancy" margin, of which many patterns, 

 good, bad, and indifferent, are offered for sale. 

 Of the former I have little to say beyond point- 

 ing out that they are usually too thin to resist 

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