. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE I. Fig. 38.—The "herring-bone pattern" is an attractive type for brick walks and is especially popular in old-fashioned gardens of the stones at right angles to the side line of the drive. Fragments should be used to fill in crevices between the large stones, for if these crevices are not well filled the finer stone above will gradually work down and in time cause depressions in the surface of the drive. Over the large stone should be placed (and well packed) two to three inches of crushed stone
. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE I. Fig. 38.—The "herring-bone pattern" is an attractive type for brick walks and is especially popular in old-fashioned gardens of the stones at right angles to the side line of the drive. Fragments should be used to fill in crevices between the large stones, for if these crevices are not well filled the finer stone above will gradually work down and in time cause depressions in the surface of the drive. Over the large stone should be placed (and well packed) two to three inches of crushed stone with a maximum dimension of about two inches. The top layer consists of three-fourths inch stone and should be thick enough to cover well and form a binder for the layer beneath. Each layer of stone must be well tamped or rolled. The last layer, which serves as a surface binder, consists of about a half inch of breaker dust. This should be wetted down as it is being packed. Such drives should have an edging to keep all stone within the bounds of the drive. Brick on edge makes a neat edging and one easily constructed. Concrete roads. On a small property it is sometimes best to use the cement ribbon drive which is economical and apparently leaves more grass area. If the ribbon drive is not used a solid cement drive may be constructed. The width of the cement drive and the diameter of the turn-around are the same as for those of brick, namely, ten feet as a minimum width for drive, and 65 feet as a minimum diameter for turn-arounds. The necessity of laying the finishing surface of a cement walk or drive before the under surface is entirely hard should be kept in mind, for if the under surface sets before the top is laid the surface will no doubt peel 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 Jenni
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