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Landscape Gardening 



should be avoided. All sorts of houses, except the largest 

 and most formal, where a straight approach to the front is 

 required, will be better planned with the carriage entrance or 

 porte cochere on the side. The breadth and extent of the 

 carriage turns may then be reduced to a minimum. 



Wherever it may be possible, the entrance door or porch 

 of a house should be approached laterally, and so as to have 

 the door on the left. It is very difficult to drive up to a door 

 when the line of approach is at a right angle with the house, 



Fig. 35. Carriage Turn for Small Grounds. 



and demands much more space to turn in. By keeping the 

 door on the left, too, any one who may be riding with the 

 coachman, or any lady who may be driven in a pony carriage 

 or phaeton, will alight at once from the side of the carriage 

 on which they are seated. Figs. 35 and 36 will exempHfy 

 this, the former being a simple sweep of the usual shape 

 while the latter is broken up by the insertion of a large shrub 

 or group of shrubs in the center. 



Cases may occur in which, from the extreme shortness of 

 the drive, the character of the house, the desire to make 

 the garden private, or the existence of a natural bank of 



