ON THE MAKING AND FORMATION OF GRAVEL WALKS. 



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but what they procure by gold, the individual of small means must 

 obtain bv industry. I know there are persons to whom the flowers 

 of Paradise would be objects of indifference ; but who can imitate, 

 or envv such ? They are grovellers, whose coarseness of taste is 

 only fitted for the grossest food of life. The pleasures ' des 

 Fleurs et des Livres' are, as Henry IV. observed of his child, ' the 

 property of all the world.' 



ARTICLE II. — On the Making and Formation of Gravel 

 ] \ r alks. By Mr. Robert Marnock, Curator to the 

 Sheffield Botanic Garden. 



The introduction of Gravel Walks in Pleasure-Grounds, being 

 avowed objects, of utility, may be said to be beautiful only in 

 proportion to their fitness tor the purposes for which they are 

 intended. In the formation of a walk, the lirst consideration, after 

 having den rmineel on the line in which it is to be made, ought to 

 he the most effectual means of rendering it at all times as dry us 

 possible. When the. subsoil is a retentive clay, a drain of bricks 

 or stones, according to the inclination of the ground, or the dis- 

 tance (he water may require to be conveyed before it is allowed to 



ape, is indispensable. When a walk is to be made in a situa- 

 tion of the latter kind, I have found the form of which the figure 

 i- a section, to answer very well. 



Fig. I- 



Tbi being accurately .iuid- at the height they 



an- inteudi d to remain, and will consolidated by binding or bcat- 



t luiitn- Mtthng, arc next to be cut in a sloping 



Lion inwards. Ti ought never to be laid with turf, 



