CHAPTER VI 

 WALKS AND DRIVES 



GOOD, dry, and smooth walks and drives are a necessity 

 for comfortable getting about on either the home or public 

 grounds, but they can in themselves add nothing to the 

 naturalness or beauty of any place. One of the first points 

 for consideration, after the house and outbuildings have 

 been located and built, is how to get to and from them, or, 

 in other words, where shall the necessary walks and drives 

 be located. 



If we could always walk or drive on the velvety grass of 

 a good lawn without getting our feet wet or killing the 

 grass, gravelled or concrete walks or drives would not be a 

 necessity, we should save much expense, and the beauty of 

 our grounds would be greatly increased; note the lawn in 

 frontispiece; but we can do neither of these; some walks and 

 drives are, therefore, from this point of view, a necessity. 

 We may compromise this matter by using flagstones which 

 will make a very good walk that can be kept in good condi- 

 tion with little expense, Fig. 53. 



A properly located walk or drive, however, may be made 

 an attractive feature, as it invites us by its smoothness and 

 dryness to walk or drive over it to the house, or from the 

 house to our daily toil or pleasure. It adds an air of 

 comfort and hospitality to the home that without it would 

 seem cold and inhospitable. 



Walks and drives in themselves add no beauty to grounds 

 devoted to the growth of choice trees, shrubs, and plants, 



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