84 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



of interest and the most noteworthy objects in 

 the entire park may be visited one after another 

 without passing the same object twice — at least 

 not in the same direction — on the round trip. 

 This problem is frequently a peculiar one to solve. 

 I may say I have given a good example in my 

 park and it has cost me almost as much labor as 

 the building of labyrinths may have cost our an- 

 cestors. The footpaths also must run into one 

 another with this end in view, affording many 

 separate paths, apparently undesigned, which 

 should be connected so as to leave a wide lati- 

 tude of choice. Where one or several of the 

 main roads or paths through the park are in- 

 tended to serve as an approach (as it is called in 

 English) to the castle or dwelling-house, it should 

 be concealed for a time to make the road appear 

 long and more extended ; but once the destina- 

 tion has come into view, it is not well to allow 

 the road to turn off any more unless there be a 

 mountain or lake or other palpable obstacle for 

 which the road must deviate. 



The customary drive around the whole park 

 should in every respect be the opposite of the 

 encircling belt as designed by Brown (which I 

 have already censured), which runs continually 

 on and on by a monotonous plantation around the 

 wall. This driveway should, on the contrary, be 

 laid out so that the vicinity of the boundary is 

 nowhere suspected ; therefore, relatively large 

 plots of grass, visible if possible at one glance, 

 should be massed between the boundary line and 



