Art Oiit-of-Doors 



dependencies shall not be determined until 

 this arrangement has been mapped out. 



If the grounds are large, and their surface 

 is not perfectly flat and uniform, it may 

 easily happen that, on the site which seems 

 best to the architect, the relative positions of 

 the high road and the entrance-front would 

 be such that no good approach could be de- 

 signed. For an approach to be good there 

 must be an easy turn-in from the high road ; 

 the grade within the gate must be uniform 

 and as gentle as possible ; there must be no 

 sharp turns, dangerous alike to meeting 

 vehicles and to bordering turf ; the house 

 must be well displayed to advancing eyes ; 

 and the line of gravel must not so intersect 

 the ground as to interfere with a beautiful ar- 

 rangement of its parts, or to be itself a dis- 

 agreeable object when seen from the house. 

 Too often not one of these necessities is ful- 

 filled in the approach, although all might 

 have been fulfilled had the house been 

 properly placed. Sometimes even a change 

 in position so slight that it would not have 

 perceptibly altered either aspect or prospect 

 in general, would have made all the differ- 



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