WALKS. 



302 



WALKS. 



w. 



Wachendo'rfia — HtBmodoracece. 

 — Bulbous and tuberous-rooted 

 plants with large panicles of very 

 showy flowers, which are generally 

 yellow. These plants have rhizomas 

 or under-ground stems, in the scales 

 of which, in some of the species, 

 little bulbs form, which, if removed 

 and planted, become distinct plants. 

 These are the bulbous kinds. The 

 others have the same kind of rliizoma 

 or fleshy under-ground stem, but no 

 bulbs form in it. All the kinds are 

 nearly hardy ; and they will thrive in 

 the open ground, provided the situa- 

 tion be tolerably dry, without its 

 being necessary to take up their roots 

 during winter. 



Wahlenbe'rgia — Campanulacece. 

 Perennial and annual plants, formerly 

 considered as belonging to Campanula, 

 and of which Campanula grindi- 

 fiora is the type. They should all 

 be grown in sandy loam, and they are 

 propagated by seeds, and division of 

 the roots. 



Walks may be considered with 

 reference to their direction, their 

 construction, and their management. 

 In a small garden, the direction of 

 the main walks should generally be 

 governed by the boundary lines ; and 

 hence, in a plot of ground which is 

 square or oblong, the walks should be 

 straight and rectangular : the object, 

 in such a case, being to produce the 

 beauties of regularity and symmetry. 

 On the other hand, when the boun- 

 daries of a garden are irregular, the 

 surrounding walk may be irregular 

 also ; the object in this irregularity 

 being to create variety by contrast in 

 the direction. When a garden 

 bounded by straight lines, is so large 



may be varied in direction ; the boun- 

 dary being concealed by trees and 

 shrubs, or by artificial undulations of 

 the soil. In general, it may be laid 

 down as a principle, that all walks 

 should be straight when there is no 

 obvious reason why they should be 

 otherwise ; and hence, in the case of 

 all winding walks, if there is not a 

 natural and apparently unavoidable 

 reason for their deviating from the 

 straight line, an artificial reason ought 

 to be created. This may always be 

 done even on a flat surface by the 

 position of trees and shrubs, or when 

 there is the slightest inclination to 

 inequality of surface, the same suffi- 

 cient reason may be created by height- 

 ening these inequalities. When a 

 winding walk bends to the right, the 

 trees and shrubs ought to be chiefly 

 conspicuous on the left side, and the 

 contrary ; and the same rule is appli- 

 cable to the natural or artificial in- 

 equalities. When a walk ,is made 

 perfectly straight, the surface of the 

 ground ought to be perfectly even for 

 some feet in width on each side of the 

 walk, excepting in some few cases, 

 such as a straight terrace walk along 

 a regular uniform slope, in which 

 case the ground on one side of the 

 walk will rise regularly, and on the 

 other side will fall regularly. All 

 straight walks should lead to some 

 conspicuous object at the farther end 

 of the walk, and facing it, so as to 

 appear to belong to it ; and this object 

 should be seen the moment the walk 

 is entered upon. Hence, every straight 

 walk should have an object at each 

 end, such as a seat, an alcove, an 

 archway, a gate, a door, a statue, a 

 fountain, &c. A winding walk, on 

 the contrary, requires no object at 

 whole of tbe interior is to be laid out } the farther end to allure the spectator ; 

 as pleasure-ground, then the walks I because every turn has the effect of 



