Art Out-of-Doors 



out danger to themselves or the borders, but 

 anything in excess of this should be studi- 

 ously avoided ; and if a turning-place must 

 be provided near the house, the oval should 

 be made as narrow as convenience will 

 allow, or the road should be carried around 

 a plantation of some sort. Here again, 

 however, the plantation should not be a 

 flower-bed. It should not look as though it 

 had been put in to fill up a sweep v/hich 

 had been made too large ; it should not 

 look as though it existed because of the 

 road. The road should look as though it 

 took the encircling curve because there was 

 an obstacle to its turning short upon itself 

 which it was desirable to preserve. And the 

 exact character of this obstacle should be 

 regulated by surrounding things, and espec- 

 ially by those which lie opposite the door. 

 If it is well to shut out something unat- 

 tractive, then a shrubbery or low-growing 

 tree may fill the space ; or if it is well that 

 the eye should have free passage, then a tree 

 with higher branches may be chosen. 



But, of course, the arrangements which 

 are ideally best cannot always be made. In 



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