ALKS. See Garden 

 Paths and Walks. 



Walks, Arrange- 

 ment and Form 

 of. 



All broad terraces, promenades, and 

 walks in gardens should, if possible, be 

 perfectly level ; and if the removal of 

 water renders a fall necessary, it should 

 be so slight as to be imperceptible. 

 Gratings are hardly ever admissible on 

 such walks ; rough stones, or rubble con- 

 nected with underground drains, cropping 

 out to within a few inches of the surface, 

 being used instead for the removal of 

 surface water. The longer and wider a 

 walk is, the more offensive to good taste is 



On yonder seaward-looking tower 

 Falls evening's red and mellow light 



Again, as in days of splendour 

 Its chamber walls grow bright. 



And the scent of the Wall-flower fills the air 



As when, from the spicy east 

 The palmer brought the perfume rare 



For the giver of the feast." 



TKORNBURY. 



the appearance of a grating and other 

 irregularities of level. These views apply 

 with double force to straight walks, and 

 there are few gardens of any pretensions 

 where either of these objectionable points 

 are now to be found. However beautiful 

 curved walks may be elsewhere and 

 they are exceedingly beautiful they can 

 never be made to harmonise with the 

 straight lines of architecture, and therefore 

 should not be introduced near any house 

 which assumes the proportions of a man- 

 sion. Generally, there will be found 

 plenty of scope for the introduction of both 

 straight and curved walks ; but where 

 there is not, the former should have pre- 

 cedence, and the curved lines be in- 

 troduced beyond the pleasure grounds. 



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