TREATMENT OF GROUND. — FORMATION OF WALKS. 311 
proper direction, must be maintained by levelling or grading, 
to produce the proper surface. 
Nothing can be more unmeaning than to see an Approach, 
or any description of road, winding hither and thither, 
through an extensive level lawn towards the house, without 
the least apparent reason for the curves. Happily, we are 
not therefore obliged to return to the straight line ; but 
gradual curves may always be so arranged as to appear 
necessarily to wind round the groups of trees , which other- 
wise would stand in the way. Wherever a bend in the road 
is intended, a cluster or group of greater or less size and 
breadth, proportionate to the curve, should be placed in the 
projection formed. These trees, as soon as they attain some 
size, if they are properly arranged, we may suppose to have 
originally stood there, and the road naturally to have 
curved, to avoid destroying them. 
This arrangement of trees bordering an extended Approach 
road, in connection with the various other groups, masses, 
and single trees, in the adjacent lawn, will in most cases 
have the effect of concealing the house from the spectator 
approaching it, except, perhaps, from one or two points. It 
has therefore been considered a matter worthy of considera- 
tion, at what point or points the first view of the house shall 
be obtained. If seen at too great a distance, as in the case 
of a large estate, it may appear more diminutive and of less 
magnitude than it should ; or, if first viewed at some other 
position, it may strike the eye of a stranger, at that point, 
unfavourably. The best, and indeed the only way to de- 
cide the matter, is to go over the whole ground covered by 
the Approach route carefully, and select a spot or spots suf- 
ficiently near to give the most favourable and striking view 
of the house itself. This, if openings are to be made, can 
