. How to plan the home grounds;. Landscape gardening. ROADS AND PATHS 27 of an intelligent plan and estimate than ordinary country- places of a number of acres. It is difficult to decide upon a standard of road grades for ordinary places. So much depends on the kind of vehicle for which the road is chiefly intended, on the character of road covering used for the surface, and on the condition in which the surface is maintained. The grade should not be so great as to require the applica- tion of the brakes to the wheels in descending, or to pre-. vent an ordinary vehicle from carrying a load of
. How to plan the home grounds;. Landscape gardening. ROADS AND PATHS 27 of an intelligent plan and estimate than ordinary country- places of a number of acres. It is difficult to decide upon a standard of road grades for ordinary places. So much depends on the kind of vehicle for which the road is chiefly intended, on the character of road covering used for the surface, and on the condition in which the surface is maintained. The grade should not be so great as to require the applica- tion of the brakes to the wheels in descending, or to pre-. vent an ordinary vehicle from carrying a load of passen- gers with horses ascending the hill at a trot. Generally speaking, the grade should be somewhat less than the angle of repose, or that angle upon which the vehicle in a state of rest would not be set in motion by its own weight, but would, on slight motion being imparted to it, descend with slow uniform velocity. In practice, the steepest grade that should be allowed on macadamized or telford roads such as are gener-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Parsons, Samuel, Jr. 1844-1923. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co.
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