EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE FEATURES 69 



It is a series of mean- 

 ingless curves. The 

 reason for these curves 

 is the fact that the 

 drive was extended 

 from time to time as 

 new houses were added 

 to the villa. The 

 reader will easily per- 

 ceive how all the kinks 

 might be taken out of 

 this drive and one di- 

 rect and bold curve 

 be substituted. 



The question of 

 drainage, curbing, 

 and gutters. 



Thorough drainage, 

 natural or artificial, is 

 essential to hard and 

 permanent walks and 

 drives. This point is 

 too often neglected. 

 'On the draining and 

 grading of residence 

 streets a well-known 

 landscape gardener, 

 O. C. Simonds, writes 

 as follows in ^'Park 

 and Cemetery": 



'^The surface drainage is something that interests us whenever 

 it rains or when the snow melts. It has been customary to 

 locate catch-basins for receiving the surface water at street 



