OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



It is quite essential to the effectiveness of 

 this design for the lay-out of the grounds that 

 the public road be kept in neat and trim con- 

 dition — so neat and so trim that the visitor ap- 

 proaching it from the south (the direction of 

 the nearest railway station), shall, when he 

 arrives opposite the gardener's cottage (whose 

 porch must jut upon the highway), involun- 

 tarily reckon it a gate-lodge of some private 

 domain into which he just there enters. For 

 the fuller establishment of this pleasant de- 

 ceit, the real entrance gates should be of the 

 simplest and most unpretending character — 

 as if they were but portions of some interior 

 enclosures. Whatever grass or shrubs may 

 grow within the public road after passing the 

 gardener's cottage should be as zealously cared 

 for and as trimly kept as if they were within 

 the enclosing wall. One may be assured that 

 the neighboring public will* never resent such 

 careful keeping of the high-road, and they 

 may be brought by it, in tim'e to practise some 

 such picturesque devices on their own account. 



Another hint I think it necessary to drop 

 here. The lay-out of a place upon paper it is 

 easy to make very engaging and tasteful ; there 

 is indeed no limit to the graces of curve, 

 which may be laid down by an adroit drafts- 



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