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top of an extended, formal slope. There are places 

 where such a walk or drive, if following a nice grade and 

 showing its entire length from the end, presents a mag- 

 nificent appearance, especially if there is enough grass at 

 the sides to give it an ample setting ; and trees and 

 flowers are used in abundance some distance back from 

 the edge, to be seen over the intervening grass. Walks 

 or avenues of this character can hardly be considered 

 complete, without some striking objective point near or 

 distant, either real or apparent at each end, such as a 

 building, monument, fountain, or it may be only a piece 

 of statuary, or a large vase. Small objects, like the last 



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Fig. 29.— OBJECTIVE POINTS IN WALKS. 



named, may be given a suitable setting near the ends of 

 such walks, or at junctions with cross-walks, as shown in 

 figure 29, by placing the object on a low, circular terrace 

 of green sward, retained either by a stone coping, or by 

 turf sloping sharply down to the common level. For 

 smaller and short, straight walks, a tree of striking foli- 

 age or form, or an evergreen clipped into pleasing shape, 

 a flower-bed, arbor, vase, or seat, may serve as a terminal 

 object. Such objects may also, if the walk or avenue be 

 long, be brought in at points, not too close together, 

 along the sides, to break monotony. 



