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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
SECTION VII. 
TREATMENT OF GROUND. — FORMATION OF WALKS. 
Nature of operations on Ground. Treatment of flowing and irregular surfaces to heighten 
their expression ; flats, or level surfaces. Rocks, as materials in Landscape. Laying out 
Roads and Walks: Directions for the Approach: Rules by Repton. The Drive, and 
minor walks. The introduction of fences and verdant hedges. 
— — - — “ Strength may wield the ponderous spade, 
May turn the clod and wheel the compost home ; 
But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, 
And most attractive, is the fair result 
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.” 
Cowper. 
R O U N D is undoubtedly the most unwieldy 
and ponderous material that comes under the 
care of the Landscape Gardener. It is not 
only difficult to remove, the operations of the 
leveller rarely extending below two or three feet of the sur- 
face, but the effect produced by a given quantity of labour 
expended upon it, is generally much less than when the 
same has been bestowed in the formation of plantations, or 
the erection of buildings. The achievements of art upon 
ground, appear so trifling too, when we behold the apparent 
facility with which nature has arranged it in such' a variety 
of forms, that the former sink into insignificance when com- 
pared with the latter. 
For these reasons, the operations to be performed upon 
ground in this country, will generally be limited to the 
