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SECTION VII. 
TREATMENT OF GROUND. FORMATION OF WALKS. 
Nature of operations on Ground. Treatment of flowing and irregular surfaces tc 
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. 
ROUND is undoubtedly the most un- 
wieldy 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 surface ; but the effect produced by a 
given quantity of labor 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 ar 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 compared with 
the latter. 
For these reasons, the operations to be performed 
