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manding the gates. Setting back is most required 

 where the drive turns off at right angles. It may 

 be variously shaped, the simpler the better. Any 

 space not required for convenience of driving can 

 be laid down in grass or shrubs, and protected by 

 low posts and chains. Diagram 59 shows various 

 entrances of good form. 



DIAGRAM 59. 



When gates open directly to a straight avenue 

 they can hardly be too stately. When the drive 

 turns and passes through more or less natural 

 scenery simpler gates are permissible. The same 

 principle applies to the junction of a drive with the 

 highroad as to two paths : it should enter at 

 right angles, and take the most direct (or appar- 

 ently so) line to the house (Diagram 60.) Often 

 the finest view of the house is towards one of its 

 corners, and some manoeuvring may be necessary 

 to bring the drive up towards a corner. Judicious 

 planting is the best means of justifying an indirect 

 road. The bends can be planted so as to appar- 



