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to serve as a screen to its course ahead, or their 

 limbs will in time obstruct passage upon the road. 

 Your resort then must be bushes of species chosen 

 with reference to the heights and breadth of foliage 

 they will ultimately develop, with a view to the range 

 of vision of observers in carriages. If there is a walk 

 following the road it should, in such cases, be so far 

 divided from it as to give room for the required bank 

 of low foliage between it and the wheelway." 



Messrs. Olmsted and Vaux made a joint report to be 

 found in the Sixth Annual Brooklyn Park Reports (page 

 97), and they thus express their ideas on roads and 

 paths: 



"To illustrate the practical application of these 

 views, we will take one of the many classes of ar- 

 rangements for the accommodation of the move- 

 ments of the public through a park, the drives or 

 carriageway, and consider what is required of it. 

 A drive must be so prepared that those using it 

 shall be called upon for the least possible judgment 

 as to the course to be pursued, the least possible 

 anxiety or exercise of skill in regard to collisions or 

 interruptions with reference to objects animate and 

 inanimate, and that they shall as far as possible 

 be free from the disturbance of noise and jar. To 

 secure those negative qualities, the course of the 

 road must be simple; abrupt turns must be avoided; 

 steep grades that would task the horses or suggest 



