. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GAKDEN "WALKS AND BOADS. 263 ovals, circles, or meaningless curves, repeated ad nauseam, must be tested by experience to be fully appreciated. liines of Divergence.—This is a point of great importance. Unless in the case of straight walks, they should seldom diverge at an abrupt or straight angle, but rather glide softly and easUy into one another. The primary idea of pleasure-ground walks should be that of leisurely enjojonent. Hence, all sudden and abrupt changes or turn- ings should be avoided. To diverge at right angles suggests a sum- mons to
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GAKDEN "WALKS AND BOADS. 263 ovals, circles, or meaningless curves, repeated ad nauseam, must be tested by experience to be fully appreciated. liines of Divergence.—This is a point of great importance. Unless in the case of straight walks, they should seldom diverge at an abrupt or straight angle, but rather glide softly and easUy into one another. The primary idea of pleasure-ground walks should be that of leisurely enjojonent. Hence, all sudden and abrupt changes or turn- ings should be avoided. To diverge at right angles suggests a sum- mons to business, rather than a stroU for pleasure. Such sudden changes and abrupt turnings are quite in harmony with street traffic and business pur- suits, but incongruous to garden pursuits and pleasures, and therefore out of place in pleasure- grounds. The illustra- tions show how they may generally be avoided. In Fig. 11 the divergence of the walk is forced by a dense group of Rhodo- dendrons. The same prin- ciple is exhibited in Fig. 12, where aseat or fountain compels a turning of the walk to either side, or to both. The latter is gene- rally preferable and the more pleasant, and avoids any mental questioniags as to why one side, and tbat probably considered the worst, should have been chosen rather than the other. By continuing the walk on both sides all this is avoided, more pleasure is realised, and ideas of larger extent con- veyed. In Fig. 11 the main walk is, as it were, continued almost straight, and the branch walk is narrower, and turns sharply to the left. As a rule, the system of narrowing the walks at the point of divergence is not only a convenient one, but fur- nishes as it were an additional reason why they should diverge. Up to this point a main walk was. Tig. 13. LlJTES OP DiTERGENCE. needful for the common traffic. From here two or more points of interest of equal moment claim attention, and hence two or three narrower walks may suffice. There is one point i
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