76 Landscape Gardening 



try on a small farm, desirous of experimenting for himself 

 with all the new modes of culture. The small and irregu- 

 lar fields would, to him, be rather an advantage, and there 

 would be an air of novelty and interest about the whole 

 residence. Such an arrangement as this would also be 

 suitable for a fruit farm near one of our large towns, the 

 fields being occupied by orchards, vines, grass, and grain. 

 The house and all the buildings should be of a simple, 

 though picturesque and accordant character. 



The cottage ornee may have more or less ground attached 

 to it. It is the ambition of some to have a great house and 

 little land, and of others (among whom we remember the 

 poet Cowley) to have a little house and a large garden. 

 The latter would seem to be the more natural taste. When 

 the grounds of a cottage are large, they will be treated by 

 the landscape gardener nearly like those of a villa residence; 

 when they are smaller a more quiet and simple character 

 must be aimed at. But even where they consist of only a 

 rood or two, something tasteful and pretty may be 

 arranged. 



In making these arrangements, even in the small area 

 of a fourth of an acre, we should study the same principles 

 and endeavor to produce the same harmony of effects, as 

 if we were improving a mansion residence of the first class. 

 The extent of the operations, and the sums lavished, are 

 not by any means necessarily connected with successful 

 and pleasing results. The man of correct taste will, by the 

 aid of very limited means and upon a small surface, be 

 able to afford the mind more true pleasure, than the im- 

 prover who lavishes thousands without it, creating no other 

 emotion than surprise or pity at the useless expenditure 

 incurred; and the Abbe Delille says nothing more true than 

 that, 



" Ce noble emploi demand un artiste qui pense, 

 Prodigue de genie, et non pas de depense." 



From the inspection of plans like these, the tyro may 

 learn something of the manner of arranging plantations, 



