CHAPTER X. 
WALKS AND ROADS. 
I F, as we have insisted, a correct map has been made of the 
grounds, with all the buildings, and the trees already growing, 
marked thereon, the next work is to lay out roads or walks 
upon this map. First, question your wants as to where the 
street entrances or gates had better be made. This is to be de¬ 
cided principally by the direction of daily travel over them. They 
should always be in the directions that the family go oftenest, and 
should be laid out so as to connect most conveniently the street or 
streets with the entrance doors of the dwelling and outbuildings. 
No more walks should be made than are wanted for daily use, either 
for business or pleasure. In small grounds, walks made merely for 
the purpose of having “pretty walks” meandering among suppo¬ 
sitional flower-beds, convey the impression of a desire for show dis¬ 
proportionate to the means of gratifying it. Where there is an 
acre, or more, of ground devoted to decorative gardening, and it is 
intended to keep a gardener in constant employ in the care of it, 
then walks conducting to retired seats, or summer-houses, or made 
for the purpose of revealing pleasing vistas, or intricacies in the 
shrubbery, or charming surprises in flowers that may be arranged 
upon their borders, may add greatly to the beauty of the place. 
We would not advise having any carriage-way to the front entrance 
of a house, unless the distance is from eighty to one hundred feet 
