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which contradicts this principle. It is a series of 

 meaningless curves. The reason for these curves 

 is the fact that the drive was extended from time 

 to time as new houses were added to the villa. 

 The reader will easily perceive how all the kinks 

 might be taken out of this drive and one direct 

 and bold curve be substituted. 



The sides of walks and drives may often be 

 planted with shrubbery. It is not necessary that 

 they always have prim and definite borders. 

 Fig. 168 illustrates a bank of foliage which breaks 

 up the hard line of a walk, and serves also as a 

 border for the growing of flowers and interesting 

 specimens. This walk is also characterized by the 

 absence of high and hard borders. 



Even in cities, it is not always necessary that 

 stone copings be used. Fig. 169 illustrates this 

 fact, and also shows how the parking between the 

 walk and the street may be effectively planted. 

 Upon the draining of residence streets, a well- 

 known landscape gardener, O. C. Simon ds, writes 

 as follows in "Park and Cemetery:" 



"The surface drainage is something that inter- 

 ests us whenever it rains or when the snow melts. 

 It has been customary to locate catch -basins for 

 receiving the surface water at street intersections. 

 This arrangement causes most of the surface 

 water from both streets to run past the crossings, 

 making it necessary to depress the pavement, so 

 that one must step down and up in going from 



