Roads and Paths 



which is the most beautiful of all possible 

 adjuncts to a home — which is the indispen- 

 sable foreground in any out - door picture 

 where utter wildness of aspect is not desired. 

 A carefully clipped and tended lawn is the 

 first thing to be secured where there is any 

 comparatively level ground, where the house 

 is anything but the simplest cottage, and 

 w^here the rest of the place is to be ^^kept 

 up" by the gardener's hand. If place and 

 purse are so modest that the expense of turf- 

 ing and clipping cannot be incurred, then a 

 stretch of meadow left in its natural condition 

 is essential ; and in either case it is equally 

 necessary that, to produce the right effect of 

 breadth and peacefulness, the grass should 

 be kept as free as possible from roads and 

 walks. 



To secure a good lawn where it can be 

 most enjoyed — to keep the approach from 

 cutting into two parts what ought to be an 

 harmonious picture, opposite the chief win- 

 dows — it is best, of course, not to have the 

 entrance-front of the house and the lawn- 

 front the same. Even though the highvray 

 may lie opposite the front where the lawn 



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