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aspect is that assumed in the example, but 

 with a north aspect the space about the rear 

 of the house would be too valuable to waste as 

 gravel, and another device would have to be 

 employed. I need not describe every possible 

 mode of doing this, as many examples will 

 be illustrated in the plans which follow. As 

 for the path's objective, I have already offered 

 suggestions in an earlier chapter. 



Though it is a good rule to make paths go 

 direct to their destinations, an exception is 

 permissible and even desirable in a long gar- 

 den, where a single straight path would prove 

 a monotonous feature. I therefore favour 

 some device which breaks the line, such as 

 may be contrived by cranking the path or 

 by introducing an expansion into its length. 



The cranked path gives opportunity for 

 allowing the principal border to terminate 

 in a transverse extension, by which the vista 

 is improved, and a screening effect obtained. 



We will assume that our path sets out from 

 the gravel space immediately behind the house, 

 threads through our borders, and terminates 

 in, say, a summer house. The treatment 

 of the space to the south of it may now be 



