Art Oiit-of-Doors 



near his destination he finds himself carried 

 away again, and sometimes this process is 

 repeated several times. In addition to the 

 pretentiousness and inconvenience of such 

 an arrangement it injures the place as a 

 whole, for there is no more fundamental 

 principle in the art of gardening than that 

 the fewer the roads and walks the better, 

 and the shorter their course, consistent with 

 convenience and good lines, the better, too. 

 A line of gravel is not a beautiful object in 

 itself: — it is conspicuous on account of its 

 diiterence in color from the surrounding 

 verdure, and wherever it comes it cuts a 

 landscape - composition in two as with a 

 knife. Its virtue lies in being at once as 

 useful and as inconspicuous as possible. 



A happy mean between the two extremes 

 of mathematical rigidity and irrational ir- 

 regularity is what we want in an approach — 

 a line which is direct enough to seem sensi- 

 ble and yet curved enough to give grace and 

 variety. Sometimes its bends will be dic- 

 tated by conspicuous irregularities in the 

 surface of the ground, or by existing trees 



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