PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



Foot-stones, projecting from four to five inches 

 on all sides of the stone-work, should be placed be- 

 neath the gate-posts of stone, brick, or concrete. 

 With a depth of three feet below grade, and with 

 the careful placing of the foot-stones, the most 

 stately and dignified of decorative gate-posts can be 

 built without the least fear of frost heavings or any 

 form of leaning or pushing out of plumb. The dry- 

 wall gate-post, or one with the stones placed without 

 mortar, is not desirable unless it is a continuation of 

 the wall laid in the same fashion. The upright stone- 

 work at the entrance-way, built to provide sufficient 

 height for swinging the gate, should be made especi- 

 ally firm for the insertion of the iron for hinges 

 and fastenings; but beyond this the dry- wall finish 

 may continue from the wall to the top of the post. 

 Dainty Alpine and other rock-loving plants will 

 flourish in the soil-pockets in the larger crevices 

 and grow to the top of the posts. For the mortar- 

 finished stone-work, there must be no attempt to 

 leave crevices for the small particles of earth re- 

 quired to grow the sedums and other rock plants. 

 Only dry-wall effects will allow this treatment for 

 gate-posts. For the staight, firm, mortar-finished 

 posts it is important to have good cement mortar 

 where it is exposed to the weather. In the use of 



rough field stones, care should be taken to have the 



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