282 PEACTICAL GARDENING. 



to the verges, so that there is good reason for carriages not 

 going the same way; for this purpose the entrance to the 

 path should be between plantations, that it may seem to be 

 what it really is. 



If there be a lake, or a rivulet, or a river, it is well to mako 

 the path for some distance traverse its margin : or if there be 

 any other object worth a nearer inspection, the path, or a 

 branch from it, should lead to or past it ; and if the grounds 

 about the house be shut out from the general landscape, the 

 path should enter it without interfering with the road ; and 

 the planting at the outlet, which in fact forms the entrance 

 near the house, should bo as plainly indicative of its nature 

 and purpose, and so contrived as to be ornamental, and not 

 so formed as to admit of any lengthened view. 



These principles can be carried out on a small scale, or 

 rather on a hmited space, as well as on a large one, so that 

 there be enough room to give the desired width ; but, if the 

 space be too limited, the path is better omitted ; for however 

 small a place may be, roads and paths should seem part of a 

 large one, instead of being reduced in projDortions. 



Trees, Shrubs, and Planting. — We have already sup- 

 posed that there are in places some trees, bushes, and orna- 

 niental wood standing, and we now come to their appropriation. 

 On the outside of the road, we have already provided various 

 widths of space which have to be furnished, or to stand as 

 lawn or parterre, as the case may be ; and, first, we have to 

 see that palings, or any other fence, be C[uite concealed by 

 shrubs as high as the object they are to hide ; this must be 

 done with shrubs obedient to the knife — common and Portugal 

 laurels, yews and box, alaternus, aucuba japonica, and holly, 

 are among the most usefal, because they can be allowed to 

 grow up, or be kept down just as well, and answer the general 

 purpose by aiding us in appropriating or shutting out the 

 neighbouring premises. These shrubs, too, form a diversified 

 and highly effective foliage. These are not to be planted close 

 to the fence, but with room to grow. But this would be a stiff 

 formal border if confined to a row that would just conceal the 

 fence or palings ; we have therefore to form an irregular belt. 

 The planting may be brought out twenty, thirty, or even 

 forty feet in some places, in a bold clump, with ornamental 

 deciduous trees at the back and in the centre, consisting of 

 laburnums, thorns of different kinds, guelder roses, chestnuts, 



