wide ; and the episodical walks, or those which divide the various compart- 

 ments of the flower garden, or others purposely set apart to afford scenes of 

 themselves, of less dimensions. A moderate villa residence should have a 

 house walk six or seven feet wide, and the principal winding walk ahout five or 

 six feet. No pleasure ground walks should he less than five feet wide, except 

 the house and grounds are very small indeed, or the grounds very precipitous, 

 where a four or five feet walk would not only he more readily formed, but would 

 be more in character than one wider. In very abrupt rude situations, they 

 should appear more like natural tracks. The principal walks uniting with the 

 terrace walk should become gradually narrower, until they soften imperceptibly 

 into its proper width. But where a returning walk intersects the principal 

 one, that would be a still better place for its change, provided the distance 

 is not too great to continue the whole breadth. Walks in kept grounds of 

 gentle undulations or of a level surface, should invariably be of long, gentle 

 or graceful sweeps ; not only because such are most beautiful and pleasing, 

 but because they are less interrupting to the student or reading pedestrian, 

 than those of more sudden and numerous bends. (See General Plan.) At the 

 junction of two principal walks, each should diverge gradually in an opposite 

 direction from the other, (figure 17, a), which would be more in character 



Figure 17. 



than if both inclined one way, (figure 17, b). In many cases, a branch or 

 subordinate walk should set off at right angles with the direct or general 

 walk, of course rounding the sharp points off. Steep rugged ground, or 

 ground of abrupt folds, naturally demands that the bends of the walks should 

 be shorter and more numerous, for the purpose of obtaining the easiest 



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