230 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



thick ; to be covered from two and a half to 

 three inches thick with a composition of fine 

 beach or coarse sand and fine chalk rubbish, 

 in the proportion of one of fine chalk to three 

 of sand, made up with water and gas tar 

 (using one of tar to six of water) and beat 

 down solid to a fair surface. 



In the search after truth in any science, 

 it has ever been held allowable to examine 

 freely such publications as have treated on 

 the subject in discussion. 



Upon the same principle, I trust I may 

 be permitted to elucidate my ideas upon the 

 subject of taste by a reference to such public 

 works as are connected with that subject ; as 

 it is only by examples of notoriety that the 

 question can be fairly brought to an issue, 

 so as to assist in the establishment of some 

 standing on a question of such general and 

 increasing interest. 



It is under this sanction, that I have ven- 

 tured to give my opinion upon the treatment 

 of the water at Buckingham Palace, and also 

 upon the late improvements in Hyde Park ; 

 and under the same sanction, I now proceed 

 to offer a few remarks upon another public 



