. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 80 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENLN-G. the dwelling-house from the dust and publicity of the public street or highway. The range between five hundred and a thousand square yards will generally be found sufficient. It is most important that there should be ample space, without conveying impressions of excess; besides, as carriage-sweeps should be particularly well made and kept, they are expensive luxuries if too large. To curtail this expense, and also improve their appearance in the opinion of some, circles, ellipses, or squares, in the middle of carriage-s
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 80 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENLN-G. the dwelling-house from the dust and publicity of the public street or highway. The range between five hundred and a thousand square yards will generally be found sufficient. It is most important that there should be ample space, without conveying impressions of excess; besides, as carriage-sweeps should be particularly well made and kept, they are expensive luxuries if too large. To curtail this expense, and also improve their appearance in the opinion of some, circles, ellipses, or squares, in the middle of carriage-sweeps, have frequently been laid down in turf, or planted with trees and shrubs. Occa- sionally, too, handsome vases, fountains, or groups of statuary, are placed in the centre of the space ; all these are out of place in such positions, and seem exposed to so much danger as to mar one's enjojonent. Statuary in such positions is altogether too sugges- tive of the Italian boys with their trays of images on their heads to be per- missible. Better boldly reduce the space to the necessities of the family; or, if this is impossible, give it all up to the use of the horses and carriages, with instructions that the whole is to be run over and kept in use for exercis- ing the horses rather than not at all. The pear-shaped sweep (Fig. 2) is one of the most common and con- venient. It should always he made of sufficient area to allow of a carriage and pair being driven easily round it. In this form of sweep it matters com- paratively little where the front door is placed, the latter being almost equally easy of access from any portion of the bend. Perhaps no form affords more facile access and egress in less space than some one of the many forms of the pear sweep. One most important point seems often overlooked in the formation of carriage-sweeps; that is, thorough drainage below, and the prompt removal of surface water. Nothing contributes so much to the latter as a slight fall from the
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