. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . ork of the lawn-mower, and they take care of themselves. When the plank rots,ten years, the plank isdropped in its place. at the expiration of five to taken up and another one This ordinarily makes the best kind of a walk alongside a rear border. ,\ (Plate XI.) In gardens, nothing is better for a walk than tanbark. The sides of walks anddrives may often beplanted with is not necessary thatthey always have primand definite 73 illust
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . ork of the lawn-mower, and they take care of themselves. When the plank rots,ten years, the plank isdropped in its place. at the expiration of five to taken up and another one This ordinarily makes the best kind of a walk alongside a rear border. ,\ (Plate XI.) In gardens, nothing is better for a walk than tanbark. The sides of walks anddrives may often beplanted with is not necessary thatthey always have primand definite 73 illustrates abank of foliage whichbreaks up the hard lineof a walk, and serves also as a border for the growing offlowers and interesting specimens. This walk is also character-ized by the absence of high and hard borders. Figure 68 illus-trates this fact, and also shows how the parking between thewalk and the street may be effectively planted. Making the borders. The borders and groups of planting are laid out on the paperplan. There are several ways of transferring them to theground. Sometimes they are not made until after the lawn is. 73. Planting alongside a walk. EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE FEATURES 75 established, when the inexperienced operator may more readilylay them out. Usually, however, the planting and lawn-makingproceed more or less simultaneously. After the shaping of theground has been completed, the areas are marked off by stakes,by a limp rope laid onthe surface, or by a markmade with a rake margin once deter-mined, the lawn may beseeded and rolled (Fig. 40),and the planting allowedto proceed as it may; orthe planting may all bedone inside the borders,and the seeding then beapplied to the lawn. Ifthe main dimensions of theborders and beds are care-fully measured and markedby stakes, it is an easymatter to complete the outline by making a mark with a stick orrakestale. The planting may be done in spring or fall, — in fall pref-erably if the stock
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