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THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



nature to obstruct the view should be on the margin most remote from 

 this first and principal view. 



Kg. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Suppose our principal view is from A (Fig. 1), which we will con- 

 sider to be the site of an elevated part of the lawn, to which we resort for 

 a view of the country. If the pond extends its greatest diameter from 

 B to C, the eye has the fullest range of its boundaries — none of its 

 extent is lost. But suppose the longest diameter happens to be as in 

 Fig. 2, then, however spacious the extent of water, it is foreshortened to 

 the eye, and appears paltry. But to destroy the severe formality of right 

 angles, the general direction of the foreshore may be oblique to the line of 



vision, without loss of space, provided the obliquity is not at a low angle, 

 and the form of the whole is irregular. This may be illustrated by a 

 sketch from a pond made by us, a few years since, in a garden in a very 

 pretty western suburb. Instead of a circle or a square, we bent the pond 

 round upon itself, so that the whole extent cannot be viewed from any 

 cue point. The margin next the principal view was left quite open, so as 

 to allow the whole of the surface of the water to impress its character oa 

 the scene. The planting on the open side was arranged so as to partly 



