i 4 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



through them. (See Plan, fig. A, and sketches, p. 9.) The entrance 

 gates may be formed at the junction of two roads as at B ; or 

 where a cross road even a minor one comes on to the main road as 

 at C, or the entrance can be set back as D ; or as E, where the gates 

 are set sufficiently back from the public road to allow a carriage to 

 stand clear. To a straight drive the entrance should be imposing ; 

 and though any of the forementioned examples may be adopted, 

 yet it is well that the treatment of this work should be formal in 

 character. (See Plan, Jig. H.) The gates as well as the lodge 

 should be at right angles to the drive, and belong to it rather 

 than to the public road. The line of boundary outside the gates 

 should also be straight for, at any rate, a few feet, before any turn 

 is begun. 



The lodge should be so placed that the windows in the living 

 rooms command a certain length of both the drive and the public 

 road. 



In placing such an entrance to the estate it is well, if possible, 

 not to make it at the boundary of the property. One consideration 

 in fixing the position should be the direction of the principal traffic 

 likely to pass to it ; the position of the town, the village, the 

 church, of notable places or objects of interest. It is moreover 

 advisable to plan the entrance, if it can be, at the foot of a hill 

 or rise in the public road, and not part way up an ascent, or at 

 the top of it. A drive that goes off fairly level ground at the 

 foot of a hill, always promotes a feeling of more repose than is to 

 be experienced in the positions just mentioned. 



The actual work of making drives is dealt with later under the 

 heading of General Formation. 



