"No line or compass traced its plan; 

 With frequent bends to left or right 

 In aimless, wayward curves it ran 

 But always kept the door in sight." 



— Tlie Crooked Footbath. — Holmes. 



CHAPTER VI 



Walks, Paths and Garden Entrances 



THE value of first impressions is too well 

 established to need expounding, so if I 

 merely call attention to the fact that here we 

 have the feature responsible for the first im- 

 pressions of a garden, the importance of walks 

 and entrances will not call for further emphasis. 

 Responsible in many ways too are these walks, 

 paths, and entrances; through the material of 

 which they are constructed they make one sort 

 of impression, through their form another, and 

 by reason of what architects call their scale 

 still another. 



Material has been mentioned first because it 

 is, in one way, the most obvious thing, more 

 glaring when badly chosen, contributing in a 

 larger degree to a pleasant effect when well 



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