LAWNS, GLADES AND GARDEN WALKS. 



is equally adapted to the .formal garden, as will be seen on reference to illustrations Paved 

 Nos. 159 to 163, which show combinations of brick, stone and cobbles. In their formation, walks. 

 special attention should be given to the foundations, which should be prepared by first 

 removing all the soil and laying down a foundation of broken brick, stone, or other 

 hard material, to a depth of about six inches, on which a stone pattern may be laid 



FIG. 159. 



and bedded in sand, or cobble paving may be laid in sand and afterwards grouted in 

 cement, which is done by running liquid cement in between the stones with the aid of a 

 hard broom and so consolidating the whole. If a layer or screed of cement is spread over 

 the foundation material and the paving bedded into this, a very strong substantial footway 

 will result which will not grow weeds nearly so readily as other kinds. 



FIG. 160. 



When the residence and other architectural erections are in brick, an excellent 

 and inexpensive path is formed by paving with the same material, as shown in the 

 accompanying plan of the paved garden at The Grange, Wraysbury, already referred to 

 (111. No. 163). Visitors to Holland are impressed by the neatness and quaintness of the side 

 walks paved with small klompje bricks, while in the case just referred to, ordinary sand 



FIG. 161. 



bricks were used, but, whatever bricks are employed, it is necessary to use weed killers 

 with caution in their vicinity for the copper sulphate which is the basis of most of 

 them causes the bricks to scale. It is claimed that gas lime is a safer substitute and 

 quite as effective as a weed killer. 



FIG. 162. 



Stone paths neatly laid with flags of good quality are very pleasing in appearance. 

 Where material of two or three colours is available, from which to form it, a design 

 in simple squares and lines, as shown in illustration No. 162, may be very effective, and 

 there is endless scope for originality in their treatment. The writer has found, after a 



