HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
OH 
449 
rear steps and to the opposite side of the 
place for the benefit of the milkman and 
the grocer boy. The main central garden 
walk laid itself out naturally, straight out 
from the rear porch to the back of the 
garden. In the same way the direct walk 
from the street to the front door argued 
a straight path, concreted, with two steps 
in the top curve of the slope. This was 
originally in Milestone, but with the active 
feet of three children, the postman, and 
the wash of the rains, there was no living 
with it, and, after scooping it up off the 
sidewalk numberless times and redistribut¬ 
ing it along the walk, I bought six bags 
of cement and several loads of sand and 
had the darkey lay it at a cost of six dol¬ 
lars — and was at peace once more! 
While a straight, flat concrete walk, 
smooth-finished, with grooves across it at 
three-foot intervals, was within the abili¬ 
ties of my darkey as a mason, I felt that 
he could hardly undertake the complicated 
slopes and abutments of a properly-con¬ 
structed concrete drive-in, so I had a con¬ 
tractor do this, for $23. Such a drive-in 
should have a double slope towards a 
central gutter, both slopes grooved with 
inch, half-round grooves, spaced about 
■eight inches: it should extend some ten 
feet up the drive, and, where it joins the 
curb, should have generous concrete curv¬ 
ing abutments, so that incoming wagon 
wheels will not overrun it nor yet break 
■off any sharp corners. The rest of the 
drive requires a foundation of ash or 
gravel, six inches deep, and on top of it 
an inch of fine Milestone or gravel. Blue- 
stone is $4 a ton, and an eight-foot drive 
will take a load of it to each lineal twenty- 
five feet, so it will run into money unless 
kept reasonably shallow, the foundation 
being of cheaper material. It will not do 
to tamp or roll the original soil down hard 
and then put on your stone, for weeds 
will assuredly spring up and they are very 
hard to get out of Milestone without hand 
weeding. Our ash foundation cost us 15 
cents a load, via the colored human water¬ 
melon who held the proud post of garbage 
collector for the borough, and his total 
bill was $4.50. The Milestone cost $20, 
and we never had any trouble from weeds 
with that drive. 
While all these operations were going 
forward the lady plunged into that most 
delightful — and expensive—occupation of 
accumulating shrubbery and flowers. Done 
all at once, it would easily stand you $200 
to make any showing on such a place, but 
with us it was a labor of love; and, little 
by little, in lots of some fifteen to twenty 
dollars at a planting, we got in our shrub¬ 
bery in about three years. My rich neigh¬ 
bors simply left the whole matter to the 
landscape gardener of the borough, and 
paid the bill, getting the usual stereotyped 
setting. We could neither afford it nor 
did we want our trees in that way, for 
■each one was bought at some sacrifice of 
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