. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 104 GAUDEN MANAGEMENT. delighted and pleased becomes tame and tiresome. There is no good reason, however, why the carriage-road may not be carried through some of the most picturesque scenery, and rendered as interesting and commanding as is con- sistent with convenience. A distant glimpse of the house may sometimes be permitted with excellent effect, satisfactory to the eye for its beauty, and to the more utilitarian principles, as indicating a termination to the journey.
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 104 GAUDEN MANAGEMENT. delighted and pleased becomes tame and tiresome. There is no good reason, however, why the carriage-road may not be carried through some of the most picturesque scenery, and rendered as interesting and commanding as is con- sistent with convenience. A distant glimpse of the house may sometimes be permitted with excellent effect, satisfactory to the eye for its beauty, and to the more utilitarian principles, as indicating a termination to the journey. 235. Nothing contributes more to the importance of a carriage-road at starting than its lino of divergence from the public road. The farther the angle of separation can be removed from a right angle, as at A, the more graceful will the en- trance be ; thus, at A, it will be seen the carriage- w road h cuts into the public road a a at right '*"-•..— angles. Any inclosure following the lines in the diagram would be stiff and formal; but by throw- ing an ornamental fence where the dotted lines occur, and the space between the road and railing laid down in grass, the offensive impression of stiffness is removed. In other cases the carriage-road should be made to diverge from the public road a h, leaving the angle 3 cut off by dotted lines from c, fig. B. y. The same remark applies in fig. D, although in that instance the pubhc road a a diverges with a curve as well as the carriage-road: still, it would be improved by a curve dating from the dotted lines d ; while in fig. E, which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877; Shaw, Henry ; from the library of and initials?. London : S. O. Beeton
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