The Flower Garden. 
Section 
i. 
The main path for a garden of this size should be from four feet to four 
feet six inches wide, but not wider. The centre of it should be about level or 
perhaps a very little higher than the lawn, and rounded to a fall of two inches 
at the sides to carry off the water. (See Sectio i.) After the position of the 
path has been very carefully marked out, a trench the full width of the path 
and one foot deep should be dug out. Then some two-inch earthenware drain 
tiles or pipes should be truly laid in small channels with open joints, having a 
. , , * t very slight fall towards the discharge 
end ; this must not go into the pond 
but may join the overflow pipe from it 
or be carried to some other conveni¬ 
ent outfall. Build the gully-holes with 
four-and-a-half-inch brick sides, stand¬ 
ing on a three-inch stone flag, and place 
them at about thirty or forty feet apart, 
on both sides of the path and opposite 
to each other. Next put a six-inch cast 
iron gully grating over each hole, as 
shown at Sections 2 and 3. Drains will 
only be required on one side of the 
path, around the pond. About seven 
inches of the trench may be filled 
with broken bricks or large stones, 
and well beaten down; on this put a 
layer about two inches thick of smaller 
stones or very coarse gravel, and 
well beat it down—or preferably a 
layer of slate chips, as the latter 
material will answer the threefold 
gravel from going through to the 
the growth of weeds, and at the 
coming to the surface. If slate 
Section 2. 
Section 3. 
purpose of preventing the surface 
bottom of the trench, checking 
same time keeping the worms from 
chips are used, they should be also carried up the sides of the trench, 
nearly to the top, to prevent the worms coming out from under the turf. 
The path should be finished off with three inches of good binding gravel 
and a thin layer of finer gravel or broken sea shells on the surface, and 
afterwards well rolled. Now we have an excellent garden path; the surface 
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