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Landscape Gardening 



To prevent the curves in a serpentine walk being visible 

 from one another, groups composed pretty liberally of ever- 

 greens are most customary. They will of course be prin- 

 cipally wanted at or near the hollows of the curves, though 

 it would be unwise always to put them just at the extreme 



Fig. 15. Treatment of Curved Walk. 



center, because, in those turns that sweep away from the lawn 

 especially, the greatest depth of grassy bay may there be pro- 

 cured. Figs. 15 and 16 will assist in explaining this. And 

 one merit in the management of such things will be in making 

 the position, outline, and character of the groups extremely 

 different. 



