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GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



essential that an entrance which is used in winter and 

 summer alike should always be at its best. Quiet green 

 colouring of grass, a few evergreen shrubs, and grey stone 

 paths look well at any time of year, and can be enlivened 

 by pots of bright flowers or green wooden tubs of pink 

 ivy-leafed geraniums. In the forecourt that leads to one 

 of the show places of England, a tall row of these flowers, 



grown upon tripods 

 springing from very 

 large dark - green 

 wooden boxes, looks 

 well. They stand upon 

 a wide margin of turf 

 on either side of the 

 drive, and, seen through 

 the magnificent gold 

 and black iron gates of 

 the walled-in forecourt, 

 they form a beautiful 

 line of pink colour to 

 direct the eye to the grey stone house. 



The diagram has lines well suited to the entrance- 

 forecourt of a large house. The curved ends are good for 

 carriages and motors to glide round easily, and it is a 

 simple pattern combined with variety. 



There is at the present day a very decided feeling 

 against a circular approach immediately near a house, 

 and, if the lie of the ground makes this a necessity, the 

 circle can usually be concealed by the introduction of 

 straight lines and right angles as it nears the house's 

 formal lines. There are, of course, exceptions to this 

 rule, and a very typical one is the circular drive in 

 the midst of the ruined walls of Warwick Castle. Any 

 other shape would have been unwise here, as the walls 

 themselves make the outline, arid it is well to follow the 



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