224 Landscape Gardening 



eyes but those that are fairly within your own grounds. 

 This will enable you to feel at home all over your place and 

 to indulge your individual taste in walking, riding, reciting 

 your next speech or sermon, or wearing any peculiarly rustic 

 costume, without being suspected of being a "queer fellow" 

 by any of your neighbors; while it will add to the general 

 beauty and interest of the country at large, - - since, in 

 passing a fine place, we always imagine it finer than it is, if 

 a boundary plantation, by concealing it, forces us to depend 

 wholly on the imagination. 



