OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



so plant your coppices on either side, in and 

 out, that its line shall be indistinguishable. 

 Is there a low bit of sedgy ground that can be 

 made nothing of, for the reason that the ad- 

 joining proprietor (who holds the lower 

 lands) will enter into none of your schemes of 

 drainage? Plant it with rhododendrons and 

 the red-berried alder; or if it be a mere 

 morass, tumble into it a few of the mossy 

 stones from the higher slopes, and equip it 

 with the wood-ferns or clematis. There is no 

 spot, indeed, so ungainly that it cannot be 

 cheated of its roughness by such appliances 

 of bush and vine and plant as our own woods 

 will furnish; no stretch of lawn so meagre 

 that you may not throw across it morning and 

 afternoon, such splintered bars of light and 

 shadow from its encompassing trees as will 

 charm the looker-on. In all places of limited 

 range, and which, from the necessities of posi- 

 tion, are without wide-reaching views, it is 

 doubtful if the eye should be allowed to rest 

 upon any very determinate and defined barrier, 

 as marking the extreme limit of the grounds. 

 An irregular belt of wood or lesser growth of 

 shrubbery will offer pleasant concealment and 

 take away the sharpness of limitation, while 

 some picturesque feature in a neighbor's 



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