Enclosure 29 



tion is absent, making an interesting picture by 

 the harmony of its masses of trees, lawns, water, 

 its pleasant lines of paths and banks. That the 

 border plantation of pines and other evergreen 

 trees should be made so as to give the appear- 

 ance of a natural growth is obvious, and in the 

 chapter on " Plantations " examples will be given 

 in detail. Meanwhile the sketch in Plate I will 

 make my views clearer. At ^ the green path from 

 the park is practically hidden; at b it appears only 

 as a cutting which loses itself in the shrubbery. 



Along the boundary wall of many English 

 parks, carrying out in old times the work of 

 Brown and his followers, there runs a path be- 

 tween an almost regular band of foliage planted 

 with shrubs and trees, so that the wall is often 

 conspicuous between the tree-trunks. Brown may 

 be called the Shakespeare of the art of garden- 

 ing, but his work, while highly beautiful and 

 poetical, was often crude, angular, and uncouth. 

 This criticism is especially applicable to the work 

 of those who, undertaking to follow his teach- 

 ing, often imitated only his faults and were seldom 

 able to achieve his beauties. 



My reader must not confound my plan with 

 this English plan, as the green path that I advo- 

 cate is a part of the lawn, and has no definite dis- 

 tinction from the lawn, but simply melts into it. 

 The English idea originated in the infancy of 

 landscape gardening, when parks of such size 

 were first laid out, and when it was a matter of 

 vanity to make them appear as large as possible; 



