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Steps are sometimes needed on very steep grades or 

 terraces. In formal gardens and near a dwelling-house 

 they should be of hewn stone, but where the garden is free 

 and natural the steps may be made of rough stones without 

 mortar or cement, bordered by a few scattered rocks and 

 stones half buried in the adjoining lawns. Wood can also 

 be used, and in that case a board six or eight inches wide 

 is simply put across the walk and nailed to posts driven 

 vertically into the ground. Gravel is then filled in to the 

 top of the board, and another step is made a foot or more 



FIG. 79. IRON FENCE AND GATES. 



behind, and so on for the required distance. The face of 

 the board should be covered with split sticks of a uniform 

 size nailed vertically to the front. 



Fences and enclosures, if any, must be of neat design 

 and proportionate in size. One that affords every neces- 

 sary protection, and at the same time leaves the garden 

 exposed to the view of the passers-by, is shown in Fig. 

 79. It is made of round iron bars run through flat top 

 and bottom pieces, and placed firmly on a low stone founda- 

 tion with stone pillars on each side of the entrance to which 



