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with a well- ordered country place. The trees should be 

 so arranged, that while forming natural and graceful 

 groups, they should act as it were as frames, through 

 which the distant views or objects of interest on or 

 beyond the place, seem to appear to the greatest 

 advantage. We do not certainly wish to interdict all 

 flowers, or banish them from the vicinity of the house ; 

 far from it. We think, on the contrary, a bed or so of 

 roses, or a mass of the sweet-scented honeysuckle and 

 fragrant clematis immediately under the windows of the 

 drawing room, are most desirable, that we may enjoy 

 their fragrance of a summer evening. We would only 

 so arrange or place them, that they should in no way 

 disturb the view by withdrawing the eye from some- 

 thing much liner beyond. 



Nothing can well be prettier or in better taste than 

 an architectural flower garden, opening from the break- 

 fast or morning room, or perhaps on a side of the house, 

 where the view is confined and shut in by ornamental 

 shrubs, and which seems, by a judicious transition, to 

 connect the house and the grounds ; but we think on 

 those sides where the views are, and especially on the 

 entrance front, there should be nothing but the simplest 

 and most dignified arrangements of trees and grass. 



There is another, and we think a very sensible reason, 

 why flowers and flowering shrubs should not be intro- 

 duced, in profusion at least, either along the borders 

 of the approach road, or in the immediate vicinity of 

 the entrance front. 



It is well laid down by the English Landscape Gar- 

 deners, that from the time the house is first seen on an 

 approach, it should not be lost sight of. It being the 

 highest architectural object on the place, no rural 

 objects, like flowers, or any architectural features of 

 lower art, like statues, or vases, should be permit- 

 ted to divert the eye of the visitor, which they would 

 be very apt to do, if from no other reason than the care 



