64 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



and engravings, will at once call to mind examples ot 

 scenery distinctly expressive of each of these kinds of 

 beauty. In nature, perhaps some gently undulating plain, 

 covered with emerald turf, partially or entirely encompassed 

 by rich, rolling outlines of forest canopy, — its wildest ex- 

 panse here broken occasionally, by noble groups of round- 

 headed trees, or there interspersed wdth single specimens 

 whose trunks support heads of foliage flowing in outline, 

 or drooping in masses to the very turf beneath them. In 

 such a scene we often behold the azure of heaven, and its 

 silvery clouds, as well as the deep verdure of the luxuriant 

 and shadowy branches, reflected in the placid bosom of a 

 silvan lake ; the shores of the latter swelling out, and reced- 

 ing, in gentle curved lines ; the banks, sometimes covered 

 with soft turf sprinkled with flowers, and in other portions 

 clothed with luxuriant masses of verdant shrubs. Here are 

 all the elements of what is termed natural beauty, — or a 

 landscape characterized by simple, easy, and flowing lines. 

 For an example of the opposite character, let us take a 

 stroll to the nearest woody glen in your neighborhood— 

 perhaps a romantic valley, half shut in on two or more 

 sides by steep rocky banks, partially concealed and over- 

 hung by clustering vines, and tangled thickets of deep 

 foliage. Against the sky outline breaks the wild and irre- 

 gular form of some old, half decayed tree near by, or the 

 horizontal and unique branches of the larch or the pine, 

 with their strongly marked forms. Rough and irregular 

 stems and trunks, rocks half covered with mosses and 

 flowering plants, open glades of bright verdure opposed to 

 dark masses of bold shadowy foliage, form prominent ob- 

 jects in the foreground. If water enlivens the scene, we 

 shall hear the murmur of the noisy brook, or the cool dash- 



