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unnecessarily, but go direct to the object at 

 which they are aimed. Moreover, they do not 

 give access to the grounds generally, any more 

 than the street does; and the scheme makes 

 them almost unseen — certainly unrealized — • 

 from either the house or the garden. 



Where the space between the house and street 

 is kept in lawn, it is an advantage usually to 

 carry the front entrance walk also in at the side 

 —for lawn space should be undivided wherever 

 possible. But where this cannot very well be 

 done, where it will sacrifice convenience and 

 directness and the point of instinctive entrance 

 from the street, this walk may be made a part 

 of the general design, as in Plate I, page 30: 

 thus its position is vindicated. 



This point of entrance from the street, by the 

 way, is another of those subtle things which in- 

 stinct must govern — actual instinct in this case 

 and not artificially directed instinct, as in the 

 case of the walk. For no trick will serve to fix 

 this point; it fixes itself, definitely and obsti- 

 nately. The direction from which a place is 

 approached has more to do with it perhaps than 

 anything else, but the position of the house 

 entrance complements this; so really it takes 

 the two in combination to work the matter out. 

 Again it is the impulse to save steps—the lazy 



