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The surroundings are, if possible, even more 

 important than in any of the foregoing types, 

 for here ugly spots cannot be planted out with 

 banks of shrubs, and, as the paths and rockwork 

 are on the heights, there is every opportunity 

 of seeing those walls and hedges which we fain 

 would imagine to be miles away. For these 

 reasons, therefore, the site should be some 

 distance from any of those blots which mar 

 the view, and the approach should be through 

 some wood, or ground of a similar and un- 

 cultivated character. 



A spot such as the following would be 

 ideal : a large open stretch of very undulating 

 and broken ground at the foot of a wooded 

 hill — with perhaps a stream running through 

 it into a piece of marshy ground at its lower side 

 — which in turn merges into scrub and stunted 

 trees, fully exposed to all points except, per- 

 haps, the north, where it is sheltered by a belt 

 of ancient and majestic pines. This would 

 indeed be a spot worthy of the bestowal of every 

 care and trouble, in order to develop it to the 

 best advantage. The ground for a garden of 

 this sort must be very undulating ; by undulat- 



