290 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



The most natural methodof forming a winding Approach 

 where the ground is gently undulating, is to follow, in some 

 degree, the depressions of surface, anf", to curve round the 

 eminences. This is an excellent method, so long as it does 

 not lead us in too circuitous a direction, nor, as we before 

 hinted, make the road itself too uneven. When either of 

 these happens, the easy, gradual flow of the curve in the 

 proper direction, must be maintained by levelling or 

 grading, to produce the proper surface. 



Nothing can be more unmeaning than to see an Ap- 

 proach, or any description of road, winding hither and 

 thither, through an extensive level lawn, towards the 

 house, without the least apparent reason for the curves. 

 Happily, we are not, therefore, obliged to return to the 

 straight line ; but gradual curves may always be so ar- 

 ranged as to appear necessarily to wind round the ^roM^s oj 

 trees, which otherwise would stand in the way. Wherever 

 a bend in the road is intended, a cluster or group of 

 greater or less size and breadth, proportionate to the 

 curve, should be placed in the projection formed. These 

 trees, as soon as they attain some size, if they are properly 

 arranged, we may suppose to have originally stood there, 

 and the road naturally to have curved, to avoid destroying 

 them. 



This arrangement of trees bordering an extended 

 Approach road, in connexion with the various other 

 groups, masses, and single trees, in the adjacent lawn, will 

 in most cases have the effect of concealing the house from 

 the spectator approaching it, except, perhaps, from one or 

 two points. It has, therefore, been considered a matter 

 worthy of consideration, at what point or points the Jirst 



