Roads and Paths 



is used as a living - room, a little ingenuity 

 will suffice to make some of the windows 

 of this hall command the front prospect. 

 Again, unless the grounds are very large, so 

 that there are lawns at side or back as well 

 as in front, the front is the best place for 

 loggias or piazzas ; and these are best fitted 

 for their purpose when disconnected from 

 the entrance and thus protected from the 

 immediate intrusion of visitors, while, by 

 carefully planting near the street-line and 

 the piazza, and carefully designing the piaz- 

 za itself, it will usually be possible to secure 

 a due degree of privacy as regards passers in 

 the street. We can all remember piazzas, 

 never used in the day-time, which might be 

 perpetually used had the gardener taken a 

 little trouble to screen them. And we have 

 all seen fluttering figures hastily leaving a 

 piazza, to hide themselves indoors, when an 

 undesired visitor was espied in the distance. 

 Better planning would vastly increase the 

 comfort as well as the beauty of our suburban 

 homes ; but it is the sort of planning which 

 demands the landscape-gardener's even more 

 than the architect's assistance. 



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