LESSON 12 
ENTRANCE ROAD 
HIS presents a lesson in drawing and an excellent 
solution of a typical problem in design frequently 
encountered in landscape gardening. 
Description 
The design here given is copied, with very 
slight changes, from Edourd Andre’s “L’Art des 
Jardins,” a famous French work of the past generation. It represents 
the main entrance to a private estate of considerable importance. 
The building shown is a “gate lodge,” which in its original form 
was intended to house a guard. There were iron gates in the 
gateway and no one could be admitted to the grounds without 
the guard opened the bars. Such pretensions are not popular in 
America today. On a few estates one will still find a cottage 
marking the main entrance. It is usually occupied by a gardener 
or other employee. Even this much is done only on grounds 
owned by wealthy families more or less Europeanized. It would 
be impossible to imagine any American farmer closing the front 
gates on his farm and keeping a hired man to guard the entrance, 
admitting favorite neighbors and keeping out others. 
It seems worth while thus to point out the facts that European 
customs are different from those of America, that social customs 
have a very direct influence on landscape gardening and that there- 
fore American landscape gardening is different from that of Europe. 
In this plan the gate lodge is surrounded by a small court-yard, 
which yard is walled in. There is a wall along the front of the 
estate. Masses of shrubs and deciduous trees mark the entrance and 
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