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GARDEN ARCHITECTURE, AND HINTS ON LANDSCAPE 



GARDENING. 



ENTRANCE-ROAD. 



The entrance-road, with its wing-walls, in most cases the first unmistaka- 

 ble indication- of proprietorship which strikes the visitor, demands much 

 care in its treatment. 



Fig. 14. 



For entrance-sweeps of a plain character, the subjoined sketch shows 

 a method of coping which may be practised with very good effect. It is a 

 rude sort of crenellation, by no means lacking picturesqueness in execution, 

 though not very effective as a sketch. 



The two annexed cuts. Figs. 15 and 16, show two nearly similar methods 



Fig. IS- 



of treating an entrance-sweep wall. In the former, the curves are simple 

 quadrants in the Roman manner, which can never give grace in combina- 

 tion, as may be seen in the cyma recta or cymatium of any Roman example. 

 The Greeks, on the contrary, used invariably curves drawn by hand, of such 

 extreme delicacy, that they cannot be imitated by any mathematical formula 

 of projection. The Italian form of cymatium, which is of extreme grace, 

 is also drawn by hand. 



Fig. 16 shows the sweep treated in the Italian method, drawn, for con- 

 venience, by two portions of circles of unequal radius. The curve is easy, 

 and what is termed " flowing." 



