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142 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [chap. yi. 
and then laying them with turf. Grass 
walks were formerly common in kitchen- 
gardens, but they are manifestly unsuitable, 
being more injured than any others by the 
wheelbarrow, and unfit to walk on in wet 
weather. 
When gravel walks ivant renovating , the 
gravel should be loosened with a pick, 
turned over, raked, and firmly rolled, add¬ 
ing a coating of fresh gravel wherever it may 
be found necessary. Weeds may be pre¬ 
vented from growing on gravel walks by 
watering the walks with salt and water. 
The salt will also kill the weeds already 
there, and, if these are large, they should, 
of course, be hoed up and raked off. 
Box edgings are better than any others for 
gravel walks. They are generally planted 
in March or April. A garden line being 
first drawn tightly along the earth bordering 
the walk; a shallow trench is then opened 
close to the gravel, and the earth from it 
thrown on the bed. The box is pulled into 
separate plants, and the branches and roots 
of each trimmed till all the plants are very 
nearly of the same size. The plants are 
