70 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
course unguided, wherever they may list, by 
any means, but for their guidance the “ in- 
stinctive direction ” should be kept in mind, and 
the conditions which determine it should be 
provided, where they will guide along the line 
predetermined by the designer. Generally 
speaking, walks may be put wherever they are 
desired ; then, wherever this may be and what- 
ever their direction, they and their environ- 
ment must be so contrived as to make that di- 
rection seem instinctive. 
Going over the designs thus far given the 
“ contriving ” to this end is not always appar- 
ent; but turning to these same designs as fur- 
ther developed, it shows at once, in the plant- 
ing. For planting is usually enough to provide 
all the guide to direction which even the most 
tortuous path may need; and of course the 
large garden beds, devoted to vegetables and 
flowers, themselves offer obstacles around 
which clean turns must be made in the regu- 
larly laid out garden. 
But even without its planting, the first de- 
sign shows a reason for all its paths; the rear 1 
ones each approach the bird bath in a general 
way, and the main entrance in front is abso- 
lutely direct. In the second, it is not the plant- 
