THE APPROACH. 



The Approach, or Drive, to a residence of any pretensions, should start off at 

 right angles from the public highway, not only because the gates and their 

 appendages look best when uniform, and are instantaneous in their effect 

 upon the sight, but because the entrance thus becomes equally suited to 

 persons arriving in opposite directions. Diverging from the public road in 

 this way also affords ample room for bold plantings on either side, which is 

 highly important to a principal entrance. 



I dissent altogether from the idea expressed by certain writers, namely, 

 that the approach should be made in connection with some convenient turn 

 in the public road, so as to leave it gradually and naturally ; because, although 

 the access would appear direct on one side, it would not do so on the other 

 (figure 28), and because the plantings 



would have to be meagre on one side Figure 28. 



of the gate, when they should appear 

 bold and massive upon both sides. 



I should decidedly take advantage 

 of such a turn, if the position suited, 

 and if I wished to leave the public 

 road, so as to enter by a private lane 

 before arriving at the principal gates. 

 This would be desirable, especially 

 where another road could be provided, 

 to prevent persons going too far out of 

 their way when coming from opposite 

 directions ; and it would also be in 

 character. But this would not be suitable, as I have just shown, in the case 

 of the principal approach. 



Of private lanes hke those referred to, I may take the oj^portunity of 

 saying, that when they pass through the farm or domain, I should advise that 



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