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THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE 



to treat. It is best in 

 such cases to either run 

 the walk out to the side 

 and connect with the 

 drive, or keep it to the 

 edge of the property 

 running it directly to 

 the sidewalk (Figs. 18, 

 20, 23 and 25). 



THE ENTRANCE 



The entrance is 

 really the first matter 

 that should claim our 

 attention, as first im- 

 pressions of a place will 

 probably be based on it. 

 The walk and drive 

 (and especially the lat- 

 ter) should enter the 

 property at approxi- 

 mately right angles, so 

 that travel in each di- 

 rection is equally con- 

 venient. However, 

 when the traffic is 

 practically all to and 

 from one direction the 

 driveway can be made 

 to join the highway 

 in a natural, easy curve 

 — on a tangent, so that it seems almost a branch of the road (Fig. 

 16). It is taken for granted that such an entrance would be placed 

 on that side of the property from which the trafi&c comes. The 

 entrance may be either formal and imposing (Fig. 17) with piers, 

 iron gates, etc., or quite informal — just an opening in the planting, 

 with or without a small garden gate. When the house is located on 

 a hill and has considerable property in front, the drive and walk 

 should follow the easiest contour as nearly as possible. 



On a large city or suburban property where the house is centrally 



Fig. 23.— Another case in which the best solution of 

 the approach problem seems to be the connection of 

 drive and path. (Compare Fig. 20). Here the drive 

 is apparently a couple of steps below the level of the lawn 



