Landscape Gardening 



to all intents and purposes, the great 

 stretch of grassy meadow, with its winding 

 stream and its bounding masses of Oak 

 and Maple woods, is our own park, for 

 none of its owners get the good of it as 

 we do. For us it glows with sunshine, or 

 frowns with a passing cloud ; ours all this 

 wealth of jasper and chrysoprase and tur- 

 quoise ; as much ours as the silver sheen 

 of the Willows which wave so softly gray 

 against it, and rest the eye from the daz- 

 zling tints in which the old marsh arrays 

 herself for the mowers. But the problem 

 that vexes our spirits is that unshaped 

 foreground, and how it may be made to 

 blend more completely with the meadow 

 into one harmonious whole. If the great 

 Apple-tree could but change places with a 

 certain Elm, that is of no use in the land- 

 scape where it stands, the matter would 

 settle itself. Two more Apple-trees to cut 

 down, and you have a composition. 



But a Seek-no-further, which bears sev- 



. . must not be 



eral barrels of early apples that are very 

 good eating, is not easily to be sacrificed, 

 even to the demands of a landscape, to 

 which it is also advantageous from its 

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