Walks and Drives 49 



The sidewalk remains of cement, but once inside the front 

 gate — painted white, this is hung between white posts, above 

 which the privet of the hedge is trained to form an arch — there 

 is no longer a sign of such massive material. The house walks are 

 both appropriately graveled as becomes a simple cottage scheme. 

 The hedge is trimmed at shoulder height, rising higher, as already 

 mentioned, at the gate. The seclusion of the place is delightful, 

 yet it is not at all shut in. 



There is much about this little place that is generally suggest- 

 ive and helpful. Walks and drives are simply longer or shorter 

 according to the distance they must cover; they are never very 

 different one time from another, excepting on uneven ground. 

 And even here there is no method of laying them out better than 

 the one described — of this I am long since convinced— unless 

 the circumstances are very exceptional. 



Plants Used 

 plan a — partial shade 



I — Daphne Mezeremn: Mezereon pink; three to four feet high; 

 any soil, said to prefer a light rich one and part shade — will 

 do well in sun however and even in dry soil; flowers deep 

 red-purple, very fragrant, close along the stems in twos and 

 threes; blossoms in March, sometimes in February, long 

 before the leaves appear. 



2 — Berberis Thunhergii: Japanese barberry; four feet high; any 

 soil; low and dense, horizontal-branching shrub; flowers 

 pale yellow, small, strvmg along the branches Hke little 

 inverted cups; blossoms in April and May; scarlet hemes 

 follow which remain all winter. 



3 — Deutzia corymbiflora: Deutzia; four feet high; any soil; the 

 branches are long and slender and spreading ; white flowers 



