568 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



There are many practical difficulties, which every 

 one must find, who essays to make such country or sub- 

 urban residences. If the selection of a site is to be 

 made, the proximity of nuisances, or the danger that 

 an advancing population from the neighboring city will 

 soon supply them, renders the task one of much per- 

 plexity. The limits of your place, plant as you may, 

 can not always be concealed, without shutting out the 

 distant prospect ; and all breadth of effect, and grace 

 of outline, is destroyed by the effort to secure yourself 

 from present or anticipated annoyances. High boundary 

 fences, and a separate gate-lodge for each place, seem 

 necessary for protection from marauders while the 

 idea of even a respectable drive over your own ground, 

 secure from the disagreeable objects of the public high- 

 way, is rarely entertained. These difficulties, and many 

 others, the enthusiastic lover of a country life will 

 bravely meet, and patiently endure, when they are 

 insurmountable ; but the attempt to overcome them 

 has been made with apparent success, by the project 

 before mentioned, o-f a semi-public, or, as it is, w r e 

 believe, called a Neighborhood Park. The general 

 plan on which such an enterprise can be based, may 

 perhaps, be best elucidated by the history and des- 

 cription of Llwellyn Park,* at Orange, New Jersey, in 

 illustration of which, the engraving on steel (Plate VI.), 

 presents a view of the entrance. A Plan of the same 

 is also given in Fig. 105, and the upper and north- 

 western part of the Park is shown in Fig. 106, the 

 figures being further explained by the Table of Re- 

 ferences, page 573. 



The site selected for this Park is on the eastern slope 

 of the Orange mountain, which here forms an inclined 



* The origin and execution of this valuable scheme, is attributable to 

 Mr. L. S. Haskell, a merchant of New York, who has enthusiastically devoted 

 the past three years to the development of this, his favorite idea. 



