WALK PAVING 



both in the material used and in the planning of the 

 walk to prevent washouts. 



Stepping stones have of late years become ex- 

 ceedingly popular for a quaint, serviceable and in- 

 expensive paving in certain sections of the garden. 

 This method is supposed to have been introduced 

 into this country by the Japanese landscape artists, 

 who have developed many characteristic types of 

 oriental gardening on occidental country seats. 

 Walks of stepping stones have also been widely used 

 in old English gardens, where economy of space is 

 as carefully considered as the desire for unusual and 

 decorative paving. The work is then done with the 

 snug, trim, painstaking thoroughness which is one 

 of the greatest charms of English garden-building. 

 The paving is regularly laid, with stones of sufficient 

 weight and breadth to stay in place when once care- 

 fully embedded in the ground. The upper surfaces 

 are smooth enough to make walking easy; and they 

 are set at the right distance apart to avoid strain 

 or unnatural stepping in passing along the pic- 

 turesque walk. They are also set so evenly in the 

 surface of the soil that the lawn-mower passes over 

 them in the grass cutting ; and leaves an even surface 

 of closely trimmed sod about each large stone. 



This care in the laying is not only a great 



economy of time (as there is no trimming of irregular 



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