Introduction. 



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In cases where a carriage-way is not an absolute necessity, the substitution of 

 a flagged pathway is a great gain to the restfulness and beauty of the garden. A 

 beautiful treatment of this kind is shown by Fig. xl., the entrance to Mr. Leonard 

 Berwick's charming home in Sussex, where a flagged path passes through the quiet, 

 unbroken green of well-kept grass. But there are many places where a means of 

 driving to the door is required. Here the difficulty arises, in the case of quite a 

 small house, of the disproportion between the space required for turning a motor 

 or a pair-horsed carriage and the size of the house-front. A simple square fore- 

 court always looks well as in Fig. xxxix., a design by Mr. Leopold S. Cole. The same 

 kind of treatment, but with the angles rounded, is shown at Fig. xli., by Mr. Alick 



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FIG. XXXIX. TREATMENT FOR THE FORECOURT OF A SMALL COTTAGE. 



Horsnell. But in both these examples the expanse of gravel is rather large, nearly 

 double the area of the block-plan of the house itself. Where the coach-house or 

 garage stands beyond the house, and more or less parallel with the line of the main 

 ridge, this difficulty may be overcome by some such arrangement as that shown on 

 the plan Fig. xlii., which leaves only the width of a road at the front door. It is 

 done by making a third piece of road, branching symmetrically with that to the 

 carriage-house, and stopping short, as to its full width, when length enough has been 

 given, and ending either in a narrower garden path or some small special garden. 

 The carriage or motor would go forward, as shown by the single dotted line, would 

 then back for a short distance as shown by the double dotted line, and then again 

 go forward. 



