FIVE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
cisely. The educative force of a beautiful place, 
or an effort at creating a beautiful home, is very 
great and constant. The influence is interactive 
—always so. You become admirable by admir- 
able deeds; and beautiful by planting beautiful 
things. This is really the object and end of this 
whole drift toward the country. We wish to get 
out of the city in order to plant fine ideas in the soil. 
It pays to make our roads well at the outset. It 
almost always occurs that in any neighborhood 
there is some specific material peculiarly adapted 
to making roads. My own drives were first thor- 
oughly drained with six-inch pipes—nothing else 
will do on a hillside. When a flush of water comes 
it must be carried away with rapidity. These 
pipes lie about eighteen inches under the surface, 
and wind their way with the drives, until they come 
together in a larger drain, and thence into-the high- 
way. It needs considerable study and watching 
of the work of showers to determine just where a 
little additional work shall be done in the way of 
surface drainage. You can soon determine just 
about where these cross-cuts and side-cuts are nec- 
essary. They should catch the water before it 
accumulates, and throw it to one side, or into the 
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