Roads and Paths 
only reason why a flower-bed is unsuitable in 
such a position. A lawn which is large 
enough to be crossed by a road has a some- 
what park-like character, and in a park-like 
landscape a flower-bed is utterly out of place. 
The crude bright spot it makes is disagree- 
able enough in a small expanse of lawn, but 
doubly disagreeable when there is so much 
space that an effect of broad unity, of almost 
rural repose and peace, might be secured. 
And where a flower-bed is out of place, so, 
too, of course, are small, isolated plants, and 
especially those which have evidently been 
brought from the green-house and must soon 
be returned to it. 
But when is a lawn large enough to be 
crossed by a driveway ? Only when it is so 
extensive that a wide space in front of the 
principal side of the house can be left undis- 
turbed by its intrusive, artificial line. That 
is to say, a drive should really never cross a 
lawn, although it may divide one lawn from 
another which can be treated as an almost 
independent picture. As a feature in a pict- 
ure a road or walk is always to be deplored ; 
