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naturally wear a path if none existed to begin 

 with. 



There is generally one door by which the 

 inmates of the house most often enter the 

 garden. Let that be the starting point from 

 which the principal path shall lead directly to 

 the flowers. No deviations should be made 

 for the sake of pleasing the eye, or becausfe 

 it looks symmetrical on paper. 



I have not dealt more precisely with the 

 actual planning, because I hope to elucidate the 

 subject more effectually, by means of the draw- 

 ings which follow, than I could expect to do in 

 a verbal description. The general directions 

 already given will serve to indicate the guiding 

 principles to be followed, and I think the 

 reader and would-be garden architect will find 

 no difficulty in adapting one or other of the 

 examples to his own case, or at least in 

 deriving from them such guidance as will enable 

 him to deal with his own garden, if it should 

 not come in line with any of the typical cases 

 illustrated. 



Let him first make an outline plan of the 



