PAVING AND ITS USES 



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FIG. 28. Formal Garden, Elm Tree Farm, West Wittering. 



Paving and its Uses 



In the paved walk beauty meets utility, and 

 when skilfully devised neither can claim pre- 

 cedence. Nothing makes the garden so serviceable 

 as the paths and terraces on which you can always 

 walk dry-shod ; nothing, on the other hand, is more 

 restful and beautiful in our garden architecture 

 than the flagged ways across its turf or between the 

 deep borders of its flowers. Stone, quarried as it 



