Walks and Drives 



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matter, so decreed. Its decree was accepted and wisely fol- 

 lowed — and the result is an absolute verification of the principle. 

 There was no hedge and almost no planting of any kind when 

 the tests were made to determine the location of this important 

 point. It was therefore an exceptional opporttmity to observe 

 the impulse, not only of those living in the house, regarding it, 



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Plan A — Planting detail of entrance 

 walk as shown 



Plan B — Planting detail of a slightly- 

 different arrangement 



but of casual visitors as well. And all kinds of subterfuge were 

 resorted to, to trick the unwary and lure them into wandering in, 

 across the Httle squares of green that lay on either side of the 

 prim granolithic walk. 



Nine out of every ten left the sidewalk just where the gate is 

 now — and the tenth looked longingly at that point, though he 

 kept dutifully to the walk. None made the exact right-angle 

 turn at the porch which the walk shows ; but a group of shrubs 

 close to the walk, m this angle, backed up by a tree which shades 

 the porch, deludes one into going that way now, willingly and 

 contentedly, because it is plainly the most direct — or seems to 



