The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Paths

Narrow walks intended for dividing up vegetable quarters, &c., and affording facilities for executing work more readily. They vary in width from 1 1/2ft. to 3ft., but are subordinate to all main walks in a large garden, and frequently are not made with anything beyond the ordinary soil. Where Paths are intended to be permanent, they may be much improved if a shallow bed of clinkers, or rough gravel, is laid down, and covered with finer gravel, or ashes. The term Paths, or alleys, further denotes the divisions allowed between seed-beds.

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