. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. CONSTRUCTION DETAILS DRIVES AND WALKS THE arrangement of walks and drives is one of the most important things to be considered when designing the layout of grounds about a home. Of course there is not a great deal of latitude here when dealing with the small city lot. In this case the drive is usually straight, running back along the side of the property to the garage (Fig. 19). One main principle must be adhered to, however, and that is that both drives and walks must be as direct as possible. On the large property, the drive may ap
. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. CONSTRUCTION DETAILS DRIVES AND WALKS THE arrangement of walks and drives is one of the most important things to be considered when designing the layout of grounds about a home. Of course there is not a great deal of latitude here when dealing with the small city lot. In this case the drive is usually straight, running back along the side of the property to the garage (Fig. 19). One main principle must be adhered to, however, and that is that both drives and walks must be as direct as possible. On the large property, the drive may approach the house in easy, graceful curves so that a glimpse of the garden or some feature of it may be seen from certain points along the approach. It may be said here that when curves are "just made" in the drive they should subse- quently be planted in such a manner as to furnish an excuse for the turn. For this pur- pose a clump of shrub- bery or a group of trees is placed ab the inside of the curve (Fig. 15). In long, straight ap- proaches avoid the use of circles, etc. Such approaches may be planted out in straight lines and at even in- tervals. On the usual fifty-foot city lot the methods of running the walk to the house are limited. It should not cut across the center of the yard as this cuts up the lawn and makes it appear really smaller than it is and diflficult. Fig. as a border if preferred, a long, straight path may have t low, closely clipped hedge. Boxwood is especially good where it is hardy. 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 Jennings, Arthur J; Johnson, Leonard H. New York, A. T. De La Mare
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