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Garden Architecture, 



Some prefer a hollow curve for the entrance-sweep ; but it seems more 

 natural that the walls or fence should conform to the track which either 



Fig. 1 6. 



wheeled vehicles or pedestrians would take on turning from the highway 

 into private grounds. Besides, any thing that tends to increase the quantity 

 of gravel which requires weeding \% an objection. If on a very large scale, 

 the portions of the road over which the traffic never passes might be turfed, 

 and indeed planted, enclosed by a fence, or posts and chain ; but it may 

 be questioned whether there is strict propriety in supplementing the sweep- 

 wall, which is the real fence, by another outside it. This difficulty is greatly 

 lessened if the entrance recess is angular, as there will then be at least a 

 fair place to start the supplementary fence from ; namely, a corner pier. 



The first thing required of an approach-road is that it should be easy, 

 and reasonably direct. People who are hurrying to catch a train have lit- 

 tle leisure to admire the road for any thing but its suitability for purposes 

 of locomotion. The curves should be fair and continuous, easy to be kept 

 by the horses, and screening the house. The following example shows a 

 very short approach ; but, short as it is, it admits of being done badly. 



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Fig. 17. 



Fig. 18. 



In Fig. 17, the curve is continuous, and the house is screened. In Fig. 18, 

 the wheels would certainly follow the straighter course shown by the straight 



