48 CALIFORNIA GARDEN FLOWERS. 



them to the field or orchard entrances, corral gates and all other points 

 which you will be required to most easily and quickly reach from the main 

 highway or from the center of chief activity within the place. 



After you have thus practically connected all the main driveways with 

 points which must be reached you can see places where cross-drives from 

 one to the' other of the main drives will be convenient, and mark them out 

 also with the wheels. In all your driving do not turn out for the little 

 stakes. You must absolutely disregard them or your drive-lines will be 

 full of little wiggles; forget them entirely and let all your thoughts be upon 

 the point to be reached and the easiest way to reach it, every time you start. 



Now transfer your wheel tracks from the earth to the peper by noting 

 the stakes and drawing the road boundaries with the same relation to the 

 cross-lines. After these lines are in place you can see points where slight 

 changes can be made without injury to grade or width and then you will 

 return to the earth and stake out your permanent driveways. It is much 

 easier to stake a driveway that has been run than to run on a driveway 

 that has only been staked. 



If the place is small and no interior driveways arc to be provided, take 

 a wheelbarrow, put on in front a cross-piece with a peg on each end 

 reaching to the ground, and load with earth or rocks or a fat boy and go 

 through the same process exactly from the street to the main doorway, 

 from this to other doorways until you make a circuit of the house; then 

 from doorways or from points on the main circuit to the henhouse, the dog 

 kennel, the tennis court, the laundry yard, the vegetable and flower beds or 

 whatever centers of local activity you may plan for. Give the marking 

 pegs the distance apart which is desired for the width of the walk. Of 

 course, after the main drjves or walks are determined upon, auxiliary or 

 connecting walks should be decided upon, always with reference to some 

 recognizable purposes in their provision. These may be sometimes cross- 

 cuts to save distance in 'going in different directions. Wherever possible 

 they should be combined with some other motive, such as to make easier 

 approach to a flower 'border inviting closer inspection, an invitation to a 

 garden-bench in shade and retirement or a view point for a charming 

 vista even though it be only a glimpse at your neighbor's laundry yard, 

 which. he has made beautiful with the clothes' line posts transformed into 

 pillar roses, crowned with basket capitals of ivy geranium. Not everyone 

 can have a vista of ocean or mountain; sometimes one's neighbor's back 

 door may be worth looking at through your shrubbery. 



Straight Lines or Curves. But having faithfully done this someone 

 may disappointedly say: "My place is very flat and my walks and drives 

 laid out with directness from point to point, are all straight lines with 

 rounded corners. I wanted curving drives and walks." The reply must be 

 that on level surfaces walks and drives must be prevalently on straight 

 lines to be reasonable ; on uneven surfaces they are naturally curved to be 



