. How to plan the home grounds;. Landscape gardening. 42 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS given, day by day, to the minute repairs of small patches that are intended to fill up all depressions and ruts as soon as they present themselves. In this way, the road can be kept undiminished in thickness for an indefinite period. The repairs should be so managed as to expose the road, whether gravel or broken stone, slightly to view, without laying it bare or removing the binding ma- terial from around the stones at the surface. This may be done by men suitably provided with hoes, stiff brooms set at righ
. How to plan the home grounds;. Landscape gardening. 42 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS given, day by day, to the minute repairs of small patches that are intended to fill up all depressions and ruts as soon as they present themselves. In this way, the road can be kept undiminished in thickness for an indefinite period. The repairs should be so managed as to expose the road, whether gravel or broken stone, slightly to view, without laying it bare or removing the binding ma- terial from around the stones at the surface. This may be done by men suitably provided with hoes, stiff brooms set at right angles to the handles, shovels, and wheel- STREET. FORMAL ENTRANCE OF LARGE PLACE barrows. Machine scrapers and brooms of various kinds drawn by horses have to be used with great care, to prevent injury to the roads by loosening the top stones. A certain amount of detritus, or binding material, should be left on the road, and frequent rolling in the spring of the year vtdll help to make solid the surface that has worn loose during the wear and tear of the frost and travel of winter. To maintain a road properly on even the smallest place, the rolling should be carried on sys- tematically at regular periods all through the year, but more especially in spring, just after the frost has dis- appeared from the 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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