EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE FEATURES 69 
It is a series of mean- 
ingless curves. The 
reason for these curves 
is the fact that the 
drive was extended 
from time to time as 
new houses were added 
to the villa. The 
reader will easily per- 
ceive how all the kinks 
might be taken out of 
this drive and one di- 
rect and bold curve 
be substituted. 
HecBride 
at? 
aaah. 
The question of 
drainage, curbing, 
and gutters. 
Thorough drainage, 
natural or artificial, is 
essential to hard and 
permanent walks and 
drives. This point is 
too often neglected. 
On the draining and 
grading of residence 
streets a well-known 
landscape gardener, 
O. C. Simonds, writes 
as follows in “Park 
and Cemetery’: 
“The surface drainage is something that interests us whenever 
it rains or when the snow melts. It has been customary to 
locate catch-basins for receiving the surface water at street 
A patched-up drive, showing meaningless crooks. 
67. 
