Beautifying the Farmstead. 



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it should be only with a formal landscape, and then only when the 

 buildings are of a similar checkered design. 



Plants can be much more easily arranged to emphasize an en- 

 trance without overdoing it than can architectural features. En- 

 trance plantings may either be formal, such as hedges or regularly 

 placed specimens or clums, or they may be altogether informal and 

 irregular, as shown in figure 27. 



As with all other details of the farmstead, development at the 

 entrance, whether primarily of plants or of other material, must be 

 appropriate in size, shape, and kind. Especially with plants there is 

 a wide latitude of possibilities that may be appropriate, but the 

 limits must not be exceeded if a fitting result is to be obtained. 



Fie. -7. Informal plantings at the entrance to a farmstead. 



The approach to the farmstead should be direct, but as a rule 

 not straight toward any of the buildings. Where the buildings are 

 near the highway a good plan is to have a single road enter the 

 grounds, then to divide, one branch going directly to the barn and 

 the other past the side of the house, passing near the main-entrance 

 door, thence near the kitchen entrance, rejoining the road to the 

 barn in such a way that the traffic may conveniently pass to the 

 barn or return to the highway. (See figs. 6, 16. and 28.) This 

 arrangement of a double road is to permit traffic to reach the barn 

 without passing close to the house, while not greatly increasing the 

 extent of road surface. The approaches should be so curved as 

 to permit plantings to hide partially the barns and service yards 



