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THE PLEASURE, OR [JAN. 



THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 



ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS AND PLANTING. 



The district commonly called the Pleasure, or Flower Garden, or 

 pleasure-ground, may be said to comprehend all ornamental compart- 

 ments or divisions of ground surrounding the mansion ; consisting 

 of lawns, plantations of trees and shrubs, flower compartments, walks, 

 pieces of water, &c., whether situated wholly within the space gene- 

 rally considered as the pleasure-garden, or extended to the adjacent 

 fields, parks, or other out-grounds. 



In designs for a pleasure-ground, according to modern gardening, 

 consulting rural disposition in imitation of nature, all too formal 

 works being almost abolished, such as long straight walks, regular 

 intersections, square grass-plats, corresponding parterres, quadrangu- 

 lar and angular spaces, and other uniformities, as in ancient designs ; 

 instead of which are now adopted rural open spaces of grass-ground, 

 of various forms and dimensions, and winding walks, all bounded 

 with plantations of trees, shrubs, and flowers, in various clumps ; 

 other compartments are exhibited in a variety of imitative rural forms, 

 such as curves, projections, openings and closings in imitation of na- 

 tural assemblage; having all the various plantations and borders 

 open to the walks and lawns. 



For instance, a grand and spacious open lawn of grass-ground is 

 generally first presented immediately to the front of the mansion, or 

 main habitation; sometimes widely extended on both sides to admit 

 of a greater prospect, &c., and sometimes more contracted towards 

 the habitation ; widening gradually outwards, and having each side 

 embellished with plantations of shrubbery, clumps, thickets, &c., in 

 sweeps, curves, and projections towards the lawn, with breaks or 

 opens of grass-spaces at intervals between the different plantations ; 

 together with serpentine gravel walks, winding under the shade of 

 the trees : extended plantations ought also to be carried round next 

 the outer boundary of the pleasure-ground, when extensive; in various 

 openings and closings, having gravel walks winding through them, 

 for shady and private walking; and in the interior divisions of 

 the ground, serpentine winding walks and elegant grass openings, 

 ranged various ways, all bordered with shrubberies and other tree and 

 shrub plantations, flower compartments, &c., disposed in a variety of 

 different rural forms ; in easy bendings, concaves and straight ranges, 

 occasionally; with intervening breaks or opens of grass-ground, both 

 to promote rural diversity and for communication and prospect to the 

 different divisions; all the parts of the pleasure-ground being so ar- 

 ranged, as gradually to discover new scenes, each furnishing fresh 

 variety, both in the form of the design in different parts, as well as 

 in the disposition of the various trees, shrubs and flowers, and other 

 ornaments and diversities. 



