TREATMENT OF GROUND. FORMATION OF WALKS. 291 
mew of the house shall be obtained. If seen at too great 
a distance, as in the case of a large estate, it may appeal 
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, unfavorably. The best, 
and indeed the only way to decide the matter, is to gc 
over the whole ground covered by the Approach route 
carefully, and select a spot or spots sufficiently near tc 
give the most favorable and striking view of the house 
itself. This, if openings are to be made, can only be done 
in winter ; but when the ground is to be newly planted, it 
may be prosecuted at any season. 
The late Mr. Repton, who was one of the most cele- 
brated English practical landscape gardeners, has laid 
down in one of his works, the following rules on the 
subject, which we quote, not as applying in all cases, but 
to show what are generally thought the principal requisites 
of this road in the modern style. 
First. It ought to be a road to the house, and to that 
principally. 
Secondly . If it be not naturally the nearest road 
possible, it ought artificially to be made to appear so. 
Thirdly. The artificial obstacles which make this road 
the nearest, ought to appear natural. 
Fourthly. Where an approach quits the high road, it 
ought not to break from it at right angles, or in such a 
manner a& to rob the entrance of importance, but rather 
at some bend of the public road, from which a lodge or 
gate may be more conspicuous ; and where the high road 
may appear to branch from the approach, rather than the 
approach from the high road. 
