Art Out-of-Doors 
near his destination he finds himself carried 
away again, and sometimes this process is 
repeated several times. In addition to the 
pretentiousness and inconvenience of such 
an arrangement it injures the place as a 
whole, for there is no more fundamental 
principle in the art of gardening than that 
the fewer the roads and walks the better, 
and the shorter their course, consistent with 
convenience and good lines, the better, too. 
A line of gravel is not a beautiful object in 
itself : — it is conspicuous on account of its 
difference in color from the surrounding 
verdure, and wherever it comes it cuts a 
landscape - composition in two as with a 
knife. Its virtue lies in being at once as 
useful and as inconspicuous as possible. 
A happy mean between the two extremes 
of mathematical rigidity and irrational ir- 
regularity is what we want in an approach — 
a line which is direct enough to seem sensi- 
ble and yet curved enough to give grace and 
variety. Sometimes its bends will be dic- 
tated by conspicuous irregularities in the 
surface of the ground, or by existing trees 
