In a season like the present, when heavy drenching rains succeed each other in quick succession, the comforts of a good gravel walk can scarcely be over-rated. It is, therefore, a serious drawback when paths are not good; and there are many that are not so, owing as much to the injudicious manner in which they have been made, as to the indifferent materials of which they are composed; but there are walks likewise with which in ordinary weather no fault can be found, but which after heavy rains present a guttered and broken appearance. Such walks are those on hill sides, when the water is sure to break them up into gullies more or less deep. Now, to obviate this defect, many walks are provided with outlets at the sides, where the water is caught by an earthenware pipe, which conveys it to some subterranean channel. Now these outlets, or eyes as they are called, are, to say the least of them, but clumsy appurtenances to a walk; and they must be pretty- numerous, otherwise the accumulation of water does all the mischief they are intended to remedy. Any plan, therefore, that would bind the walk together, so as to resist the flow of water, without at the same time rendering it unpleasant to walk upon, must be an acquisition, provided it be capable of general application.

Now, the following, though possibly nothing new, will effect this object: - Pound some good lime, (not slake it,) and convey some of it to the damaged walks; then mix it with the gravel in something like the proportion of one part lime to four or five of gravel A small quantity only ought to be mixed at a time with water, and then laid on immediately, beating and smoothing accordingly; then another quantity; and so on, until the whole is done. The mass by this means becomes so consolidated that it is years before water can have any effect upon it, the process being in fact what builders call "cementing," and one which I certainly like better than asphalte, besides being so much cheaper; for in districts where lime is plentiful and good, it may be used less sparingly: but it is not an expensive affair at any time; and to those who hare been suffering from the effects of thunder showers and other heavy rains, I advise a trial of a little of it in the most exposed place, and I think I may warrant its.answering. - Vindex, in Gard Chron.