Verges. 



LAWNS, GLADES AND GARDEN WALKS. 



where anything approaching a network of walks is necessary, they should not all be seen 

 at once. These three rules, if properly observed, would do much to remove many of 

 the objections raised against the informal method of laying out grounds. 



It is sometimes necessary to connect walks which are part of the pleasure grounds 

 or walks leading from the conservatory, garden entrance, or other particular portion 

 of the house, with the 

 carriage drive. The best 

 way in such cases is, 

 wherever possible, to 

 effect a junction with 

 the carriage sweep, but 

 if it becomes necessary 

 to connect such paths 

 with the drive, the same 

 conditions should be 

 observed as before de- 

 scribed in making a 

 back drive, or the junc- 

 tion should be at right 

 angles, which would be 

 still better. 



For verges to 

 garden walks other than 

 terrace paths, grass 

 would, by general con- 

 sent, be allowed to be 

 the most suitable, but 

 grass so charming when 

 in good keeping, is all 

 the more disappointing 

 when untidy or sparse. 

 This is most noticeable 

 in the many instances 

 where a narrow grass 

 verge borders a drive 

 overhung by trees, when 

 no amount of care will 

 prevent it from being 

 ruined by the drip from 

 the branches, and where 

 it would be far better 



FIG. 169. WOODLAND WALKS AT MOUNT STEWART. 



to give up the attempt to grow grass and replace with some shade-loving plant which will 

 succeed under trees, such as ivy trimmed level and to a line, cotoneaster macrophylla 

 similarly treated, gaultherias, hypericum calycinum, or dwarf sweet briar hedges or box, 

 say, one and a half feet broad and two feet high. Failing these, a border of rough stones, 

 as in illustration No. 169, cobble paving or narrow free-stone flag or other local paving 

 material might be laid. The edgings to be avoided are those consisting of blue bricks, 

 white spar, fancy blue or coloured edging tiles, shiny terra-cotta, glazed bricks, cement 

 or granolithic, and also any material laid in a series of scallops or jagged points. 



