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and a concave curve at the lower part. This is a slope that 
would ordinarily be terraced, but in its present condition it is 
a part of the landscape picture. It may be mown as readily 
as any other part of the lawn, and it takes care of itself. 
4 
2 
60. Treatment of a sloping lawn. 
The diagrams in Fig. 60 indicate poor and good treatment 
of a lawn. The terraces are not needed in this case; or if* 
they are, they should never be made as at 1. The same dip 
could be taken up in a single curved bank, as at 3, but the 
better way, in general, is to give the treatment shown in 2. 
61. Treatment of a very steep bank. 
Figure 61 shows how a very high terrace, 4, can be supplaced 
by asloping bank 5. Figure 62 shows a terrace that falls away 
too suddenly from the house. 
The bounding lines. 
In grading to the borders of the place, it is not always ueces- 
sary, nor even desirable, that a continuous contour should be 
maintained, especially if the border is higher or lower than the 
