FxvE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 



cisely. The educative force of a beautiful place, 

 or an effort at creating a beautiful home, is very 

 great and constant. The influence is interactive 

 — always so. You become admirable by admir- 

 able deeds; and beautiful by planting beautiful 

 things. Tliis is really the object and end of this 

 whole di-ift toward the country. We wish to get 

 out of the city in order to plant fine ideas in the soil. 

 It pays to make our roads well at the outset. It 

 almost always occurs that in any neighborhood 

 there is some specific material peculiarly adapted 

 to making roads. My own drives were first thor- 

 ouglily drained with six-inch pipes — nothing else 

 will do on a hillside. When a flush of water comes 

 it must be carried away with rapidity. These 

 pipes lie about eighteen inches under the surface, 

 and wind their way with the drives, until they come 

 together in a larger drain, and thence into-the high- 

 way. It needs considerable study and watching 

 of the work of showers to determine just where a 

 little additional work shall be done in the way of 

 surface drainage. You can soon determine just 

 about where these cross-cuts and side-cuts are nec- 

 essary. They should catch the water before it 

 accumulates, and throw it to one side, or into the 



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