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Their chief benefits are warming, ventilating, and 

 deepening the soil ; and our next care should be to 

 extend these effects by ploughing, subsoiling, and 

 judicious manuring. How much of these is worth 

 while, must be determined by the circumstances of 

 each case, but we may be sure that, to some extent, 

 they are absolutely necessary. 



At length, when the soil is prepared, we may move 

 our trees, at the most favorable time, and from our 

 own nursery, to make our plantations. Our previous 

 measures having given us complete control over all 

 the circumstances, we proceed sure, not only of suc- 

 cess, but of rapid realization. It is astonishing to 

 those not familiar with such work, to see in how few 

 years beautiful landscapes can be obtained, provided 

 we have the courage and patience to move with 

 deliberate but constant energy. 



Let us now consider some of the effects which it is 

 desirable to produce. The two most important ideas 

 to keep in mind are simplicity and concentration. 

 This need not interfere with that intricacy so effective 

 in large and highly finished grounds; but the 

 refinements must come gradually, — the broad prin- 

 ciples first. We will suppose that, in building our 

 house, we have avoided some of the common errors, 

 and that we have placed the room where we are to 

 live, the windows where we really mean to sit, on the 

 side where we get our most desirable view. If an 

 ornamental terrace here connects us with our grounds, 

 so much the better ; but we need not be dependent 



