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Landscape Gardening 



or that a demesne characterized by the latter expression 

 should not be occasionally enlivened with a few "smart 

 touches" of the former. This is often necessary, indeed, to 

 prevent tame scenery from degenerating into insipidity, or 

 picturesque into wildness, too great to be appropriate in a 

 country residence. Picturesque trees give new spirit to 

 groups of highly beautiful ones, and the latter sometimes 



FIG. 11. PLAN OF FARM BEFORE IMPROVEMENT 



heighten by contrast the value of the former. All of which, 

 however, does not prevent the predominance of the leading 

 features of either style, sufficiently strong to mark it as such; 

 while, occasionally, something of zest or elegance may be 

 borrowed from the opposite character, to suit the wishes or 

 gratify the taste of the proprietor. 



Ground Plans of Ornamental Plantations. To illustrate 

 partially our ideas on the arrangement of plantations we 



