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The formal plan needs a great deal of space in order to make 

 it efifective, for the dignity of any vista depends largely upon 

 its length, and such a scheme as this should not be attempted in 

 connection with any but a formal house, with almost unlimited 

 space in front of it. The freer sort of turn-around is more adapt- 

 able and can be managed in less room, for it is possible to so plant 

 such a drive as to disguise its limits. But it is not possible to 

 reduce these limits to a circle of less than sixtv feet outside diam- 

 eter, unless the entire turn-around be given over to gravel; eighty 

 feet is a more comfortable minimum. 



Mr. Keating's place at St. Martins illustrates a clever scheme 

 for a drive on a small place. It is a combination of turn-around 

 and court, — and occupies what under ordinarv circumstances 

 would be the entire front yard. The space inside the wall is 

 95x65 feet, and the drive is 15 feet wide. A straight service 

 drive leads to the garage at the rear of the property, and it is 

 worth noting in connection with this plan that the garage is off 

 centre with the drive, so that from the street one mav not look 

 straight down the drive into the yawning doors of the garage. 

 Curving the drive a little, so as to plant out the direct line of 

 vision, accomplishes the same result, but requires more space than 

 is available between property line and house, on this plan. 



The plan and photograph of Mrs. Alexander's place at Ber- 

 nardsville, illustrates much the same sort of entrance arrangement 

 on a larger scale. 



A turn which takes the form of an ellipse, or some variant of 

 an ellipse, is more agreeable than the simple, obvious circle. The 



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