72 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



one side may be continued across the sunk 

 fence on the other ; as when the ground 

 sinks in the field, by beginning the dechvity 

 in the garden. Trees, too, without, con- 

 nected with those within, and seeming part 

 of a chimp, or a grove, will frequently 

 obliterate every trace of an interruption. 

 By such or other means the line may be, and 

 should be, hid or disguised ; not for the 

 purpose of deception (when all is done we 

 are seldom deceived), but to preserve the 

 continued surface entire. If, where no union 

 is intended, a line of separation is disagree- 

 able, it must be disgusting when it breaks 

 the connection between the several parts of 

 the same piece of ground. That connec- 

 tion depends on the junction of each part 

 to those about it, and on the relation of 

 every part to the whole. To complete the 

 former, such shapes should be contiguous 

 as most readilv unite ; and the actual di- 

 vision between them should be anxiously 

 concealed. If a swell descends upon a 

 level, if a hollow sinks from it, the level 

 is an abrupt termination, and a little rim 

 marks it distinctly. To cover a short 

 sweep at the foot of a swell, a small rotun- 



