56 PARKS AND PLEASURE- GROUNDS. 



through extensive parks, is often needful to ppm up 

 communication with the different districts of the sur- 

 rounding country. "When the second approach is of 

 nearly as much importance as the principal one, similar 

 care and attention must be expended on both. If the 

 second and third are of quite a subordinate character, 

 one of them should form a convenient road to the offices 

 and gardens, while the other may be prolonged to some 

 extent as a drive through the park. In places of limited 

 dimensions, a second approach and a back-road to the 

 bouse may be usefully combined. The back-road to the 

 bouse and service-roads, when well arranged, contribute 

 much to the domestic convenience of the residence. 

 They should connect the house, stables, kitchen-garden, 

 the home farm, and the more frequented roads of the 

 external country; and they should be such that the 

 cartages between these various places should never be 

 brought along the principal approaches, nor do more 

 than cross them when necessary. Though kept in good 

 order, the appearance and position of these roads should 

 clearly indicate their use. 



Note. — As a general rule, in the United States, the 

 fewer " approaches " through a park, the better. They 

 are expensive to make, and expensive to keep in re- 

 pair. Still, in well-kept places, the main approach 

 should not be made subservient to common and labori- 

 ous uses. A hidden — so far as may be — roadway 

 should accommodate the latter, and, if possible, never 

 interfere with, or cross the other, when it can be 

 avoided. — Ed. 



Site of the Entrance. — The entrance-gate, and its 

 necessary appendage, the lodge, form the commence- 

 ment of the approach, and a suitable site for these, 



