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House & Garden 
One of the most delightful entrance treatments for 
the large place is the lodge gate through which the 
approach is made to the estate. This one, on an 
English estate, was designed by Sir Edwin Lut¬ 
yens for one of his best country house schemes 
The approach to another of Sir 
Edwin's houses terminates with 
appropriate dignity upon this 
paved forecourt, surrounded by 
yew hedges and set with a sundial 
The ‘‘elm entrance" to a Greenwich, Ct., 
estate approaches the house at an angle 
that is balanced by a drive from the op¬ 
posite direction. Gateway and drive by 
James L. Greenleaf, landscape architect 
it. The short winding drive cramps the 
house; the bushes and trees that surround it 
darken the windows. No, there can be no 
doubt that in the majority of cases a formal 
treatment is the most satisfactory in a small 
property. 
Formality is not confined in its use to 
small properties only. It can also be em¬ 
ployed on a large scale with the most splen¬ 
did effects. Nothing can be finer than a 
long straight avenue of enormous trees run¬ 
ning from a well-designed entrance to a noble 
house, seen remotely at the other end of the 
receding vista. But alas! this grandiose 
