288 HOME AND GARDEN 



There is a distinctly pretentious and therefore vulgar 

 look about an extremely wide roadway leading to a 

 small private house ; it seems to come within the 

 same classification as an avenue I was once told of, 

 extending for a length of two miles, and planted 

 with variegated Sycamore and Copper Beech placed 

 alternately ! The idea of such a mixture, and of 

 such a long-drawn weariness of direly-monotonous 

 continuity, is like a nightmare ; I did not gather 

 whether the thing was only in contemplation or had 

 really been perpetrated, but can only hope that no 

 such unhappy avenue is really in existence. 



