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ihev are produced, should he laid down by 'In- 

 laying ; and by the autumn after, they will be 

 well rooted, and form plants two or three feet 

 high, which may be separated, and planted in 

 nursery-rows, a> the seedlings. They succeed 

 very readily in this wa\ . 



Most oi the sorts take tolerably by cuttings of 

 the strong young shoots ; but the latter more 

 freely than the former kinds. The most proper 

 season for planting them is the autumn, as soon 

 as the leaf falls, or occasionally in the spring ; 

 choosing a moist soil for the purpose, when 

 many of the cuttings will grow, and make tole- 

 rable plants bv the autumn following. 



These last two methods are the only ones in 

 order to continue the distinct varieties effectually. 



Thev have a very ornamental effect in all sorts 

 of plantations, from their large growth and 

 the great size of their leaves. 



PLEASURE-GROUND, any ornamented 

 ground round a residence. It comprehends all 

 the ornamental compartments or divisions of 

 ground and plantation ; such as lawns, plan- 

 tations of trees and shrubs, flower compart- 

 ments, walks, pieces of water, Sec., whether 

 situated wholly within the space generally con- 

 sidered as pleasure-ground, or extended over ha- 

 ha's, or by other communications, to the adja- 

 cent fields, parks, paddocks, or out-grounds. 



In designs for pleasure-grounds, modern im- 

 provements reject all formal works, such as 

 long straight walks, regular intersections, square 

 grass plots, corresponding parterres, quadran- 

 gular and angular spaces, inclosed with high 

 clipped hedges, &c, as well as all other uni- 

 formities ; instead of which, open spaces of 

 grass ground of varied forms and dimensions, 

 and winding walks, all bounded with planta- 

 tions of trees, shrubs, and flowers, in various 

 clumps and other distributions, arc exhibited in 

 a variety of imitative rural forms, as curves, 

 projections, openings, and closings, in imita- 

 tion of a natural assemblage, having all the va- 

 rious plantations open to the walks and lawns. 

 A spacious open lawn of grass ground being 

 generally first exhibited immediately in the front 

 of the mansion, or main habitation, sometimes 

 widely extended in open space on both sides to 

 admit of greater prospect, Sec, and sometimes 

 more contracted towards the habitation, widen- 

 ing gradually outward, and having each side 

 embellished with plantations of shrubbery, 

 groves, thickets, Sec., in clumps, and other 

 parts, in sweeps, curves, and projections, to- 

 wards the lawn, Sec, with breaks or openings 

 of grass spaces at intervals, between the planta- 

 tions ; and serpentine gravel-walks winding un- 

 der the shade of the trees: extended plantations 



being also carried round next the outer boundary 



of the ground, in various opening-; and 

 having also gravel-walks winding through them, 

 for shady and private walking : and in the in- 

 terior divisions of the ground serpentine wind- 

 ing walk-, exhibited, and elegant grass opens, 

 arranging various ways, all bordered with shrub- 

 beries, and other tree and shrub plantations, 

 flower compartments, &c, disposed in a va- 

 riety of different rural forms and dimensi mis, m 

 easv bendings, c mcaves, projections, and straight 

 ranges, occasionally : with intervening breaks 

 or openings of grass ground, between the com- 

 partments of plantations, Sec, both to promote 

 rural diversity, and for communication and 

 prospect to the different divisions ; all the plan- 

 tations being so variously arranged, as gradually 

 to discover new scenes, each furnishing fresh 

 variety, both in the form of the design in dif- 

 ferent parts, as well as in the disposition of the 

 various trees, shrubs, and flowers, and other or- 

 naments atid diversities. 



So that in these designs, according to modern 

 gardening, a tract of ground of any extent may 

 have the prospect varied and diversified exceeding- 

 ly, in a beautiful representation of art and nature, 

 so that in passing from one compartment to an- 

 other, new varieties present themselves in tho 

 most agreeable manner ; and even if the figure of 

 the ground be irregular, and its surface has many 

 inequalities, in risings and fallings, and other 

 irregularities, the whole may be improved with- 

 out any great trouble of squaring and levelling, 

 as, bv humouring the natural form, even the very 

 irregularities may be made to conceal their na- 

 tural deformities, and carry along with them an 

 air of diversity and novelty. In these rural 

 works, however, we should not entirely abolish 

 all appearance of art and uniformity ; for these, 

 when properly applied, give an additional beauty 

 and peculiar grace to all natural productions, 

 and sets nature in the fairest and most advan- 

 tageous point of view. One principal point in 

 laving out a pleasure-ground, is for the designer 

 to take particular care that the w hole extent of 

 his ground be not taken in at one view, as 

 where the contrary is the ease there is a tame- 

 ness and want of proper effect produced. 



It is impossible to give any directions foi 

 planning a pleasure-ground; as the plan may be 

 varied exceedingly, according to the natural 

 figure, position, and situation of the land, and 

 taste of the designer. 



In respect to the situation, it must be inimc- 

 diatelv contiguous to the main house, wh thei 

 high or low situated: however, a somewhat ele- 

 vated situation, or the side or summit of some 

 moderate rising ground, is always the most 



