Wood and Plcinlalions 



place before the reader two or three examples, premising 

 that the small scale to which they are reduced prevents our 

 giving to them any character beyond that of the general one 

 of the design. The first (Fig. 11) represents a portion, say 

 one third or one half, of a piece of property selected for a 

 country seat, and which has hitherto been kept in tillage as 

 ordinary farm land. The public road, a, is the boundary 



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FIG. 12. PLAN OF SAME GROUNDS IMPROVED AS COUNTRY SEAT 



on one side: dd are prettily wooded dells or hollows, which, 

 together with a few groups near the proposed site of the 

 house, c, and a few scattered single trees, make up the ag- 

 gregate of the original woody embellishments of the locality. 

 In the next figure (Fig. 12) a ground plan of the place is 

 given, as it would appear after having been judiciously laid 

 out and planted, with several years' growth. At a, the 

 approach road leaves the public highway and leads to the 



