352 ON LAYING OUT A FLOWER-GARDEN. 



about one and a half or two feet wide. These may be 

 at right angles, or parallel, for convenience and order, 

 in making beds, &c. for the various Dutch roots and 

 other flowers. Patches or plats of grass studded with 

 shrubs, deciduous and evergreen, are indispensable, 

 and perhaps one or two grass walks. 



Of Walks. These should have five or six inches of 

 lime and brick rubbish, or broken stone in the bottom, 

 covered with small pebbles, and firmly rolled with a heavy 

 roller, over which lay two or three inches of fine gravel, 

 giving the whole a complete rolling. Walks made on 

 this method will stand well, and be always dry and 

 firm. With regard to breadth, they must be made ac- 

 cording to the extent of ground, and vary from three 

 to thirty feet ; from four to eight feet is generally 

 adopted. 



