18- TREATMENT OF SLOPING GROUNDS. 



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already found in place, and to attain the desired effect it 

 may be simply necessary to supplement it with work of a 

 similar character. The wholly artificial sloping ground 

 will be required where it is necessary to support a steep 

 bank connected with a ten-ace or upper lawn plateau. It 

 may be also required in the immediate vicinity of a house, 

 or, as in the illustration, along a skirting boundary wall. 

 The second kind consists in great part of a mass of natural 

 rock, which, cropping out of a hillside, separates a lower 

 from a higher lawn, or borders a path or roadway, or body 

 of water, or a plantation and lawn. 



In order to explain more satisfactorily the proper 

 method of treating sloping grounds, I have employed three 

 illustrations of the work of actually constructing such feat- 

 ures. In the first illustration, a rough ungraded bank in 

 Central Park is shown ; then another, where the workmen 



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ROUQH UNGRADED BANK. 



have finished grading a piece of ground and a steep bank 

 at one end. 



It will be noticed that the bank is very steep and needs 

 to be kept up to its abrupt angle. If such a place were 



