. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. 2.—Pear-shaped Front Door Fig. 3.—Semi-ciectjlar Sweep. While the fall must be made efficient, it must on no account be excessive. As carriage fronts look best when apparently level, one inch or so to a yard, or even two yards, will suffice to remove the sur- face water if the surface is kept hard and smooth; and even when or where river or sea-shore shingle is employed for surfacing carriage fronts, the water will freely percolate through on such gentle inclina- tions. Gratings may also be placed on the outer edges, or wherever the surfac
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. 2.—Pear-shaped Front Door Fig. 3.—Semi-ciectjlar Sweep. While the fall must be made efficient, it must on no account be excessive. As carriage fronts look best when apparently level, one inch or so to a yard, or even two yards, will suffice to remove the sur- face water if the surface is kept hard and smooth; and even when or where river or sea-shore shingle is employed for surfacing carriage fronts, the water will freely percolate through on such gentle inclina- tions. Gratings may also be placed on the outer edges, or wherever the surface is lowest, to receive the surface water, as in Fig. 1. This matter of in- clination to insure the more thorough drainage and consequent drj-ness of carriage fronts is one of the most \dtal import- ance, as few things have a more depressing effect on the inmates, or con- vey a more painful im- pression of desertion and dilapidation, than stag- nant water on a carriage front right up to the front door. This is not seldom the result of im- perfect keeping, the allow- ing of ruts to be formed, and lea\'ing them for days or weeks unraked and unrolled; but proper making would reduce such discomforts and disfigui'e- ments to a minimum. It is also weU to delegate to some man or boy the duty of removing all manure or other litter fi'om the car- riage front once, or even twice a day. The time requii-ed is trifling; but the difference it makes in tidiness, comfort, and good keeping is marvellous. If dmnng these processes the ruts, when needful, are also raked in, and a hand-roller run over them, the perfect keeping of the carriage-sweep will be insured. Shape of Carriage-sweeps.—This is of less importance than size; squares or parallelograms are generally the most teUing, close to the archi- tectural lines of the house, or where the front is raised higher than the surrounding grounds, which is often the case, in order to bring it almost or alto- gether to the level of li^ang-rooms
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