140 The Art of Landscape Gardening 



will furnish ample choice of handsome trees to remain 

 single or in groups, as taste or judgement shall direct. 



In some counties the farms consist chiefly of grass- 

 land, but even a dairy-farm must be subdivided into 

 small enclosures ; and although it is not necessary that 

 a lawn near a mansion should be fed by deer, yet it is 

 absolutely necessary that it should have the appearance 

 of a park, and not that of a farm ; because, in this con- 

 sists the only difference betwixt the residence of a landlord 

 and his tenant, the gentleman and the farmer : one con- 

 siders how to make the greatest immediate advantage of 

 his land ; the other must, in some cases, give up the idea 

 of profit for the sake of that beauty which is derived 

 from an air of liberty, totally inconsistent with those 

 lines of confinement and subdivision which are charac- 

 teristic of husbandry. 



Since the beauty of pleasure-ground and the profit 

 of a farm are incompatible, it is the business of taste 

 and prudence so to disguise the latter and to limit the 

 former that park scenery may be obtained without 

 much waste or extravagance ; but I disclaim all idea of 

 making that which is most beautiful also most profit- 

 able : a ploughed field and a field of grass are as dis- 

 tinct objects as a flower-garden and a potato-ground. 

 The difference between a farm and a park consists not 

 only in the number offences and subdivisions, but also 

 in the management of the lines in which the fences of 

 each should be conducted. The farmer, without any 

 attention to the shape of the ground, puts his fences 

 where they will divide the uplands from the meadows ; 

 and in subdividing the ground, he aims only at square 

 fields, and consequently straight lines, avoiding all angles 

 or corners. This is the origin of planting those triangu- 

 lar recesses in a field surrounded by wood, which the 



