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theless, that it is always much better to altogether avoid 

 employing rocks, unless we are willing to spend much 

 time and study on their disposition, and are sure that 

 we can accomplish, in the end, something really good, 



TREATMENT OF STEPS WITH ROCKS, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK 



because it is seldom that the surroundings are such that 

 a reasonably satisfactory landscape cannot be devised 

 without the use of rocks. Plants, herbaceous plants, 

 vines, shrubs, trees, and grass we must have, with paths 

 and roads, but the rocks can generally be left out with- 



