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of the breadth and seckision of the pleasure ground. Still 

 it is very desirable that the first view obtained of the house, 

 in passing along the drive, should be a favorable one and 

 that the approach should appear at all points to tend towards 

 the house and not to the stables or outbuildings or in any 

 other direction. Hence it is always well that the architect 

 and the landscape gardener should be consulted simultan- 

 eously before the plan of the house is determined, that the 

 architect may adapt the character of his elevations to the 



Oblique Turn-in from Public Road. 



points at which alone they can be seen from the carriage 

 drive. 



An approach ought never to pass the house to which it 

 leads and then return to it, for the mere sake of gaining length, 

 or of showing off the house or grounds. Such an arrange- 

 ment is most unnatural and will do away with all the privacy 

 of the place. Nor should the drive enter at the farthest point 

 from the house and skirt the boundary all the way to it unless 

 that is the most convenient or the only point at which an 

 entrance can be made. There is great affectation in desiring 

 mere length in a drive when it simply follows the line of the 

 outside road. All drives or other approaches should rather 



