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and fair,” and neatly spread with colored sands or 
gravel. Parkinson says, “ The fairer and larger 
your allies and walks be the more grace your 
garden should have, the lesse harm the herbes and 
flowers shall receive, and the better shall your 
weeders cleanse both the bed and the allies.” “ Cov- 
ert-walks,” or “ shade-alleys,” had trees meeting in 
an arch over them. 
A curious term, found in references to old Amer- 
ican flower beds and garden designs, as well as 
English ones, is the “goose-foot.” A “goose- 
foot ” consisted of three flower beds or three 
avenues radiating rather closely together from a 
.small semicircle; and in some places and under 
some conditions it is still a charming and striking 
design, as you stand at the heel of the design and 
glance down the three avenues. 
In all these flower beds Box was the favorite 
edging, but many other trim edgings have been 
used in parterres and borders by those who love not 
Box. Bricks were used, and boards ; an edging of 
boards was not as pretty as one of flowers, but it 
kept the beds trimly in place; a garden thus edged 
is shown on page 63 which realizes this descrip- 
tion of the pleasure-garden in the Scots Gardener : 
“The Bordures box'd and planted with variety of fine 
Flowers orderly Intermixt, Weeded, Mow'd, Rolled 
and Kept all Clean and Handsome/ Germander 
and Rosemary were old favorites for edging. I 
have seen snowy edgings of Candy-tuft and Sweet 
Alyssum, setting off well the vari-colored blooms 
of the border. One of Sweet Alyssum is shown 
