Flower beds are often made to border a central lawn with no paths! at all. Then there are gardens wiiers the paths are merely trodden sell between the "beds, the paths being changed each year to fit the plantings. But experienced gardeners prefer} carefully constructed permanent paths. There are almost as many types of paths as of gardens.
One of the most popular types_is 2 path of limestone flagstones. The flagstones may be large or small. set singly in a row or far apart in the grass like stepping stones, placed closely together on a foundation of finders, ashes or cement and so fitted that the edges are straight, or lata in artistic irregularity "with "small, low growing plants between them, such as violets, sedums, phlox sub-Tata, ete.
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