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worst, the service traffic might use the farther side of the. front turn, 

 thence going on to its own service turn in relation to the service en- 

 trance. Where the garage opens upon the service turn, it will be 

 necessary to have some reasonably direct automobile traffic connection 

 between the service turn and the front turn, but this should if possible 

 be managed without opening the view from one to the other. Where 

 the front turn and the service turn are inclosed in courts in a more 

 formal scheme in English fashion, a gateway giving direct access from 

 one to the other is common, and need not be bad if it be arranged so 

 that the view through it from the forecourt falls on some pleasantly 

 designed portion of the farther side of the service court. 



On the smaller estate, or In any case where the house lies near the 

 public highway, the approach road may be more difficult to handle in 

 relation to the main views from the house. It may enter near one side 

 of the property and run diagonally towards one corner of the house or 

 by one end of it to an entrance turn at the side or possibly at the rear ; 

 or it may enter near one front corner, sweep close against the front of 

 the house and go out again at the other front corner of the property, 

 being to some extent concealed from the front windows by lying so close 

 beneath them, and probably being treated, as far as may be, as a decora- 

 tive border of a symmetrical open plot lying axially in front of the house. 

 (See Drawing XXXVII, after p. 356.) Or, — and this is an especially de- 

 sirable arrangement where the house lies close to the public street, but the 

 view from the house into or beyond the street is not to be preserved, — 

 the main carriage entrance may be directly from the street into a fore- 

 court, a separate service entrance connecting the service wing with the 

 street and leaving uninterrupted all other views from the house. 



On the private estate, in informal and naturalistic designs, paths * Paths 

 are to some extent open to the same objections which apply to roads, 

 but to a much less degree, because the path can be kept better in scale 

 with its surroundings, it can be more readily concealed and subordinated 

 to the topography, and its surface can be made not particularly con- 

 spicuous or incongruous with the other elements in the scheme. In 

 formal designs, the paths are of course a common and valuable part in 

 the composition. 



♦ Cf. Chapter X, p. 218. 



