68 THE PLEASURE, OR [Jan. 
is extended in a perpendicular line immediately from the front of 
the house, dividing ihe lawn, or extended on both boundaries and 
in other directions, with a wide border on each side, either straight 
or sometimes a little serpentined, and planted with the most curious 
low flowering shrubs, ever greens, and herbaceous flowering plants. 
All these gravel-walks should be laid with the best gravel, six or 
eight inches deep, at least; but if more the better. 
All the open grass-spaces may be considered as grass-walks, 
whether formed in the manner of walks, or as breaks or divisions 
between the various plantations, all of which serving both for 
communication to different parts, and to render the ground more 
rurally ornamental, and for occasional walking in dry weather in 
summer; but some tracts of considerable width and length, formed 
into grass-walks, leading to different divisions, having each side 
bounded with clumps of trees, shrubs, and flowers, gives an air 
of grandeur to the place; allotting smaller breaks, or opens of 
grass, branching off between the plantation compartments, as for' 
merly mentioned. 
The grass ground may be formed, either by sowing grass seed, 
or by laying it with turf, cut from some common; but in extensive 
works turfing the whole would be an endless expense; therefore 
seed is the most eligible for the principal spaces in very large 
gardens. 
Water being so ornamental in all garden designs, no pains 
should be spared to introduce it where possible; but where it ad- 
mits of a constant running stream, from some adjacent upper 
spring, its beauties may be rendered admirably fine; as it. may be 
conducted in meanders through the plantation, so as to effect a beau- 
tiful assemblage of verdure and water together; and if it should be 
continued to any considerable length, one or more ornamental 
Chinese bridges, may be carried over it at convenient places, which 
will have a beautiful effect, and serve for communication with the 
opposite divisions, on each side of the rivulet. 
Cascades, and other water-falls, have also a fine effect, where 
there is a constant plentiful stream, and the situation proper to 
give the water a due fall, from a higher to a lower part, upon a 
parcel of rugged stones, to increase the noise, and break and dis- 
perse the water. 
In some grounds, by their natural situations, water may be ob- 
tained at a moderate expense; as sometimes a contiguous vale, or 
meadow, bounded by rising ground, and with a brook or rivulet 
constantly running through it, may be easily thrown into the most 
agreeable form; and sometimes large springs issuing from an upper 
ground, and running down a moderate descent between two rising 
grounds, to some vale below, may either form one entire lake, 
Sec or be contrived, by making proper heads at distances to form 
several lakes strung together, as it were, one above another, up to 
the beginning of the spring; each head may form a beautiful water- 
fall, or cascade; having the rising grounds on each side embellished 
■with plantation clumps, 
