. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. LEVELLING AND LAYING OUT. 149 lines indicate a gravel walk, which skirts along part of the wood, that occupies, in one part, the second slope ; at other points this slope is furnished with blocks of trees, &c., and planted as a fernery, or wild natural scenery for a ribbon-border of dahlias, perhaps 200 yards long; 7 is a broad turf prome- nade, probably 1,500 yards long and 30 feet wide, which bounds one side of the nearly level space ; 8, which is occupied with a suc
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. LEVELLING AND LAYING OUT. 149 lines indicate a gravel walk, which skirts along part of the wood, that occupies, in one part, the second slope ; at other points this slope is furnished with blocks of trees, &c., and planted as a fernery, or wild natural scenery for a ribbon-border of dahlias, perhaps 200 yards long; 7 is a broad turf prome- nade, probably 1,500 yards long and 30 feet wide, which bounds one side of the nearly level space ; 8, which is occupied with a succession of gardens in almost every variety of style, from the richest embroidered patterns of box, sand, and flowers, through a succession of beautifully-grouped flower-gardens, down to the most perfect imitations of natural scenery, indicates the posi- tion of a walk which winds through beds of flowers, groups of shrubs, &c., laid out in the picturesque style ; and the whole is bounded, on that side, by a belt of wood, and at each end by an extensive park. 354. Doubtless such positions are the most commanding, and afford great scope for the display of cultivated taste and inventive genius ; sometimes, however, the grounds are level, and it is desirable that a distant view should not be obscured by a garden on the surface ; in such cases the ground is shaped as fol- lows ; a being the house, W///M^////////////M0^^/// 7 h the gravel walk, c the ^'^w///W'^ '^ turf lawn, d a sloping bank, e the garden, with rising bank beyond. Occasionally, again, the ground rises from the house, and a garden has to be looked up to, as in A; in all such cases the ground should be levelled as far as c, and then either rise gradually, as shown above, or suddenly, as in B. When a garden is formed on the rising slope, the former method is generally best, as the beds meet the eye better. In one new place that I laid out, the ground rose rapidly towards the east, and was level on the south front. No
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