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where it can be introduced with good eifect ; and it 

 may be employed without injury to the scenery when 

 the approach passes through a wood. In our judg- 

 ment, nothing is more miserable than the taste which 

 converts the bare, ill-grown trees of a hedgerow, which 

 has bordered some parish road, into an avenue through 

 whose narrow, irregular line an approach is made to 

 pass. Certainly these stunted deformities should be 

 prevented from dividing the landscape by the dividing 

 stroke of the woodman's axe. 



Note. — We have no response, otherwise than to 

 add our emphatic concurrence in so sensible a con- 

 clusion. — Ed. 



The Fine Approach. — The species of access to a 

 mansion-house which we have ventured to call a fine 

 approach is seldom found connected with large resi- 

 dences or extensive estates, but not unfrequently with 

 such small places as require only one approach and a 

 back-road. We m.ay describe it as a carriage-way 

 from the entrance to the house, so laid out as to dis- 

 play all the princijoal views and leading beauties of the 

 place. It leaves nothing worth looking at to be seen 

 from the windows, and it renders all further inspection 

 from walks or gardens unnecessary. It is in itself a 

 thing of primary importance. Indeed, nothing can 

 rival its ambition, except, perhaps, the vanity of the 

 individual to whom it owes its formation. These ap- 

 proaches are often unnecessarily prolonged. We have 

 seen them following the boundary of the property to a 

 considerable distance from the entrance, the only ob- 

 jects between them and the public road being the park 

 wall and a belt of shrubs quite insufficient to deaden 

 the noise of carriages outside. In other places they 



