WALKS AKi) DRIVES. 



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large outside areas may often be appropriated in effect, 

 and a garden of a few acres seems to embrace large out- 

 side areas because the boundaries are not visible. Carry- 

 ing with them as they do the idea of being works of art, 

 terraces, and slopes of all kinds should be made with ex- 

 actness in their levels, and with as straight lines and 



CA^O^N 



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Fig. 22. — BOUXDART WALL SET OUT 

 OF SIGHT FROM THE GARDEN. 



Fig. 23. — A SUNKEN CBOSS- 

 FENCE. 



as true curves as possible, and for the same reason it is 

 necessary to bestow a greater degree of care upon their 

 keeping than is required by most other styles of garden 

 work. Scarcely anything in the way of a garden is 

 more intolerable than the pretentious, formal work, in 

 a state of slovenly neglect. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



WALKS AND DRIVES. 



When well located, walks and drives convey the idea of 

 habitableness, imparting an air of welcome and freedom 

 to a home and grounds, and in no slight degree seem to 

 promote the beauty of a place. 



The most important walks and drives are those at the 

 entrance. If these can . be laid out, to approach the 

 home or buildings from such a direction, that more than 

 one side of the building will strike the eye at once, it 

 should always be done. Architects ask that a house be 



