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SECTION VII. 



TREATMENT OF GROUND. FORMATION OF WALKS. 



Nature of operations on Ground. Treatment of flowing and irregular surfaces to 

 heighten their expression ; flats, or level surfaces. Rocks, as materials in Landscape. 

 Laying out Roads and Walks : Directions for the Approach : Rules by Repton. Th 

 Drive, and minor walks. The introduction of fences and verdant hedges 



" Strength may wield the ponderous spade, 



May turn the clod and wheel the compost home ; 

 But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, 

 And most attractive, is the fair result 

 Of thought, the creature of a polished mind." 



COWPER. 



ROUND is undoubtedly the most un- 

 wieldy and ponderous material that comes 

 Bunder the care of the Landscape Gardener. 

 It is not only difficult to remove, the 

 operations of the leveller rarely extending below two or 

 three feet of the surface ; but the effect produced by a 

 given quantity of labor expended upon it, is generally 

 much less than when the same has been bestowed in 

 the formation of plantations, or the erection of buildings. 

 The achievements of ar upon ground appear so trifling, 

 too, when we behold the apparent facility with which 

 nature has arranged it in such a variety of forms, that 

 the former sink into insignificance when compared with 

 the latter. 



For these reasons, the operations to be performed 



