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growth, more or less, may produce the effect, by interposing 

 their thick masses of fohage between the eye and the object 

 or scene to be hidden. In the ancient or geometrical style 

 of laying out grounds, this was readily and correctly attained 

 by planting one, two, or any necessary number of rows of 

 trees in straight parallel lines, which, when fully grown, form- 

 ed tall walls or hedges of verdure, in good keeping with the 

 highly artificial and uniform character of the rest of the 

 grounds. 



Now, although the superior merits of the natural style of 

 landscape gardening, with its graceful lines and beauty of ex- 

 pression, is at present so generally admitted by all refined and 

 intelligent minds in this country, and its principles followed 

 with more or less skill by our amateurs, although the arrange- 

 ment of trees singly, in groups, and in connected masses, is 

 constantly followed, yet, in the same residences, we see the 

 belt retaining its antique stifi' appearance, enjoying some un- 

 accountable exemption from the otherwise well recognized 

 rules of taste, and destroying that unity of character which is 

 felt to be the highest charm in a tasteful and harmonious resi- 

 dence. 



To illustrate our remarks more fully, we subjoin the ac- 

 companying sketches. In Jig. 6, is shown the belt as it fre- 



6 



quently appears. 



entrance road to a residence, from which it is desired to con- 



