CHAPTER IV 
Walks, Paths and Garden Entrances 
T HE value of first impressions is too well 
established to need expounding, so if 
I merely call attention to the fact that 
here we have the feature responsible for the 
first impressions of a garden, the importance 
of walks and entrances will not call for fur- 
ther emphasis. Responsible in many ways 
too are these walks, paths, and entrances; 
through the material of which they are con- 
structed they make one sort of impression, 
through their form another, and by reason of 
what architects would call their “ scale ” an- 
other. 
Material has been mentioned first because it 
is, in one way, the most obvious thing, more 
glaring when badly chosen, contributing in a 
larger degree to a pleasant effect when well 
chosen. But the “ obviousness ” of material 
should by no means detract from a realization 
of the importance of a walk’s form or line of 
direction and its scale, although I personally 
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