TREATMENT OF SLOPING GROUNDS. 19 



subjected to the action of the elements for years, with the 

 soil as full of boulders as it is in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood, you would And that, in time, a state of things would 

 be established like the one seen in the illustration below. 





CLOSELY-MASSED ROCKS ON FINISHED STEEP BANK. 



Gullies of different depths and like general direction would 

 course down between half-uncovered rocks that may have 

 been long embedded there or may have rolled down to this 

 point. Above, just over the rocks, will appear mounded 

 up earth as though soil had washed down and collected 

 above the stone obstruction. 



Sometimes there will be several of these rocks clustered 

 together and holding up a steep portion of the banks, and 

 again, considerable spaces will occur without rocks, but they 

 may still be slightly gullied or lightly scooped out, as it 

 were, by the elements over a considerable area. The entire 

 bank, finished on these natural lines, is sodded, as it is too 

 steep to retain and properly germinate grass seed. Rains 

 would be sure to wash the seed away. 



