This should be done in as permanent a manner as your means will admit. There are many methods, but the same general principles govern them all; viz., thorough drainage underneath, and a hard, compact surface that will not cut up into ruts, nor furnish dust or mud at any season of the year. In order to accomplish this, you will need to dig out" the dirt to the depth of one foot at least, using the same for filling where needed, and leaving the bottom with a gentle' inclination toward the center if the drive is not more than twelve feet in width; in this case a tile drain should be laid under this lowest line, following the course of the road. But in case the road is wider, slant the bottom both ways from the center toward the outside, and then under both these lowest points use tiers of tiles as before. The tiles should be put at least one foot lower than the bottom of the road-bed, and laid as directed in the article upon the improvement of large places, the ditches being filled with gravel or other porous soil, in order to let the water drain off rapidly from the road above.

The cheapest material with which to fill the lower part" of the road-bed is probably cobble-stone, which should be laid smoothly and evenly over the bottom, and then covered' with layers of broken stones, stone chippings, which may be bought sometimes very cheap, large gravel stones, oyster shells or other materials of similar nature, such as can be most easily procured in your locality. Fill in evenly, and finish with clean, coarse gravel to a depth of three or more inches, bringing the edges up to within two inches of the top of the sod border before spoken of, which should always form a border between the drive and the seeded lawn. The center of the drive or walk should be higher than the sides, having an elevation of about one-half inch to the foot in width from the side to the center, or four inches rise in a twelve-foot road. Each layer of material should be thoroughly rolled, and the surface kept well and evenly raked, and freed from weeds. The margins of sod should be neatly trimmed several times during the season, keeping them on the original line, which may be preserved by driving a line of stakes on each side so that the tops will just come even with the sodding.

There are several other features in connection with the making of roads, of which we have only spoken briefly, and which must be passed by in this brief treatise, referring you again to more exhaustive works on landscape gardening.

Of this subject something has already been said in connection with other subjects; and since no small limits can do it justice, it may be as well to omit it as a separate topic, and glance at it in connection with the subjects treated of in the few remaining pages. A very good means of increasing the breadth of lawn in small lots is to have no boundary fence between neighboring lots, especially along the front half of the lots. In this case, no little care should be exercised in the planting of trees between the two dwellings, by the judicious disposition of which we may shut out the view of our neighbor's house from the best windows and other points of view, and thus appear to own a larger place than we really do. Even the entrances to two adjoining places may be combined in one so far as the starting point is concerned, with a saving of space, and no loss in effect. In case these methods are put in practice, it may be best to erect a high fence along the back half of the line, and then run a line of hedge or a grape arbor at right angles to this on the front end, reaching nearly from one house to the other, and separating the front views from the kitchen and other unsightly offices necessary to every household.

Of this, we shall speak again under the subject of fences.

A few words on the general location of plants: Except in strictly formal grounds, do not plant trees at regular distances along the walks, borders, etc., nor attempt to make one side exactly correspond to its counterpart. Neither go to the other extreme and scatter them indiscriminately over the premises, thus breaking up all the breadth of lawn and shutting out all desirable views. Give heed to the development of these last two features, which may be promoted by properly grouping trees of harmonious forms and shades, also by planting most thickly along the margins of the premises, especially on the sides where shelter is needed from cold winds, and in the turns of the walks and drives, as spoken of elsewhere. Leave open vistas from the best points of view to fine objects in the distance, or on the premises, and many a happy hour will take the place of idle melancholy.