Roads and Paths 
which is the most beautiful of all possible 
adjuncts to a home — which is the indispen- 
sable foreground in any out - door picture 
where utter wildness of aspect is not desired. 
A carefully clipped and tended lawn is the 
first thing to be secured where there is any 
comparatively level ground, where the house 
is anything but the simplest cottage, and 
where the rest of the place is to be “kept 
up” by the gardener’s hand. If place and 
purse are so modest that the expense of turf- 
ing and clipping cannot be incurred, then a 
stretch of meadow left in its natural condition 
is essential ; and in either case it is equally 
necessary that, to produce the right effect of 
breadth and peacefulness, the grass should 
be kept as free as possible from roads and 
walks. 
To secure a good lawn where it can be 
most enjoyed— to keep the approach from 
cutting into two parts what ought to be an 
harmonious picture, opposite the chief win- 
dows — it is best, of course, not to have the 
entrance-front of the house and the lawn- 
front the same. Even though the highway 
may lie opposite the front where the lawn 
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