Roads and Paths 



only reason why a flower-bed is unsuitable in 

 such a position. A lawn which is large 

 enough to be crossed by a road has a some- 

 what park-like character, and in a park-like 

 landscape a flower-bed is utterly out of place. 

 The crude bright spot it makes is disagree- 

 able enough in a small expanse of lawn, but 

 doubly disagreeable when there is so much 

 3pace that an effect of broad unity, of almost 

 rural repose and peace, might be secured. 

 And where a flower-bed is out of place, so, 

 too, of course, are small, isolated plants, and 

 especially those which have evidently been 

 brought from the green-house and must soon 

 be returned to it. 



But when is a lawn large enough to be 

 crossed by a driveway ? Only when it is so 

 extensive that a wide space in front of the 

 principal side of the house can be left undis- 

 turbed by its intrusive, artificial line. That 

 is to say, a drive should really never cross a 

 lawn, although it may divide one lawn from 

 another which can be treated as an almost 

 independent picture. As a feature in a pict- 

 ure a road or walk is always to be deplored ; 



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