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used, but it is not the best. When new it is of 
a crude and garish color, and it requires a good 
deal of watering and rolling, besides having to 
be relaid every few years. Bricks are rather 
monotonous to the eye, and are easily broken 
by frost. The most satisfactory material is 
stone, for though a stone path is more expensive 
to put down than one of gravel or brick, it re¬ 
quires little subsequent attention, and improves 
in appearance by weathering. If so desired, 
small spaces may be left here and there between 
the stones for the planting of low, hardy 
flowers like moss pink and saxifrage. 
The city garden shoidd have a formal terminus. 
Here a little figure fountain is set in a niche of 
the back wall and flanked by white jars and 
wall seats 
Down the middle axis of this city gar¬ 
den runs a little canal. Flowers are 
planted against the walls, with potted 
trees for accents 
The sense of length is also increased by 
the careful use of ornaments, which 
should diminish in size as they reach the 
end of the garden, thus artificially ac¬ 
centuating the perspective. A statue or 
vase against the centre of the end wall 
may be very effective. 
Where it is possible a pool of water, 
A sunken garden, however small, gives 
an interesting change of levels. The wall 
shoidd be laid dry, affording crevices 
for rock plants 
by reflecting the sky, will help to give 
light to the spot. In general, trees are 
not to be recommended, for they intercept 
the light and drain the soil of nourish¬ 
ment, while the drippings from their 
leaves and twigs are harmful to the 
plants at their feet. 
For paths gravel is, perhaps, the most 
