ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 



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casionally, low trees should be planted on the outer edge 

 of the mass, to connect it with the humble verdure of the 

 surrounding sward. 



In many parts of the union, where new' residences are 

 being formed, or where old ones are to be improved, the 

 grounds will often be found, partially, or to a considerable 

 extent, clothed \vith belts or masses of wood, either pre- 

 viously planted, or preserved from the woodman's axe. 

 How easily we may turn these to advantage in the natural 

 style of Landscape Gardening ; and by judicious trimming 

 when too thick, or additions when too much scattered, 

 elicit often the happiest effects, in a magical manner ! In 

 the accompanying sketch (fig. 19), the reader will re- 

 cognise a portrait of a hundred familiar examples, existing 

 with us, of the places of persons of considerable means and 

 intelligence, where the house is not less meaajre than the 



[Fig. 19. View of a Country Residence, as frequently seen.] 



Stiff approach leading to it, bordered with a formal oelt of 

 trees. The succeeding sketch (fig. 20) exhibits this place 

 as improved agreeably to the principles of modern Land- 

 scape Gardening, not only in the plantations, but in the. 

 house, — which appears tastefully altered from a plain un- 

 meaning parallelogram, to a simple, old English cottage, — 

 and in the more graceful approach. Effects like these 



