264 



CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING, 



These illustrations have all heen confined to two 

 walks. It is equally easy to show three or more 

 proceeding from one point. The writer has seen 

 even five, and in one instance eight. In the latter 

 case, however, a fine group of sculpture formed a 

 centre-piece, on which eight straight walks converged. 



Privacy in Walks. — Roads running nearly 

 abreast in one direction always suggest a waste of 

 space, or of material, or of both. And it is just the 

 same with two walks ; but in these another vital 

 objection lies against their contiguity, that is, the 

 destruction of their privacy. This is one of the chief 



Each of these was also terminated at the far end charms of gardens or pleasure-grounds ; robbed of 



AspLENiTjM Nidus. 



with a vase or a pyramidal tree. This was an 

 example, however, of the convergence rather than 

 the divergence of walks, and was by no means 

 satisfactory. 



Five Hues of divergence are several too many, 

 four are seldom artistic and pleasing, and even 

 three are apt to prove embarrassing, and to give 

 rise to mental doubts and questionings, which 

 somewhat mar the leisurely pleasure of walking 

 in gardens. Two lines at one spot are on the 

 whole in best taste, and hence none others are 

 given here, though similar principles apply to the 

 many as the few. 



their privacy, one might as well walk in tue public 

 streets as their pleasure-grounds. 



Hence, where the grounds are narrow, or where it 

 is desirable to go and return by different routes, 

 the importance of carrying the walks by difiering 

 levels if practicable, or of so planting the grounds 

 between as to hide the two walks from each other ; 

 or a raised bank may be constructed, to be planted 

 with thickly-growing shrubbery and a few trees, 

 which wni effect an entire separation of the two 

 Vv'alks. By such means not only may more perfect 

 privacy be obtained, but also the apparent extent of 

 the grounds be very much, enlarged. 



