74 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



plan. These curves must be determined by the exercise 

 of good taste and judgment, on the ground. A design 

 made on paper is apt to be very unsatisfactory wlien 

 transferred to tlie soil, unless it is made by an experi- 

 enced hand from an accurate topographical survey. 

 Even then it may nut fit. Curves made up of arcs of 

 circles are not very satisfactory, unless the arcs are com- 

 paratively short and judiciously combined. If a road is 

 properly made, only a very short arc will be visible from 

 any point; and this enables the designer, when working 

 on the ground, to make many curves and combinations 

 of curves which would be decidedly uni^lcafeing when 

 accurately platted on a map. 



When a walk or a drive branches, each arm should 

 take such a course as to ajipear to be the proper contin- 



FIG. 21. DIVKKGIXG DrtlVES. 



a, Correct, b, Wrong. 



nation of the trunk. Imagine how one arm would look 

 with the other removed. Would it still be complete ? 

 Would the whole seem to be the perfectly natural course 

 for the walk ? Such bifurcations should not be at too 

 obtuse an angle ; and yet this angle of divergence is of 

 quite minor importance if the foregoing consideration is 

 kept fully in mind. 



Where several drives or walks meet, upon demand, 

 a suitable concourse must be provided, for at such points 

 there is always apt to be a congestion of traffic. The 

 size and form of this concourse is determined solely by 

 circumstances. Sometimes such a spot commands some 

 specially fine view. The place may be treated, then, 

 with direct regard to the outlook. When no desirable 



