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tlie most severe weather, the family, immediately before quitting the drawing- 

 room and library, throw open the green-house doors; which will tend to 

 equalise the temperature of the three apartments. As the furniture, books, 

 walls, &c., in the drawing-room and library, must necessarily be heated to a 

 temperature of about 60°, it will be several hours before the demand for heat 

 by the green-house will reduce these rooms 20°, which would give a temper- 

 ature common to the three of 40°; at which, or even at 35°, greenhouse 

 plants will take no harm. Two detached pavilions, supported on four latticed 

 pillars, form a break in the walks at m and n, and serve as a foreground to 

 the back garden, and vice versa ; and between these and the boundary walls 

 there are covered seats at n n : o o are flower-beds; p is a. plantation of low 

 trees and shrubs, each plant standing distinct, in the gardenesque manner, 

 and, in the plan, the trees being distinguished from the shrubs by their 

 darker shade. For two or three years after these trees and shrubs are 

 planted, the ground about them may be kept free from grass and weeds, and 

 occasionally hoed or slightly dug ; and for this purpose the plantation ought 

 to be included in a definite outline, such as is formed by the edging of the 

 walk on one side, and by the line q r on the other. As soon, however, as the 

 plants have acquired sufficient strength to grow on a grassy surface, the out- 

 line on the lawn side may be obliterated, such of the trees and shrubs as touch 

 one another thinned out, and the surface sown down with the finer grass 

 seeds ; the whole uniting and harmonising with the lawn, as indicated at p 

 and s. We may observe here, as a general rule, that, in the gardenesque 

 manner, wherever the ground is to be dug among trees or shrubs, the boun- 

 dary should be definite ; because the principle is, that a definite outline is 

 most convenient for culture, and for the display of individual beauty. On 

 the other hand, in a picturesque plantation, where the surface is to be dug, 

 the outline should be indefinite, or consist of a ragged line ; because indefi- 

 niteness and irregularity are properties of the picturesque. We may farther 

 observe, for the sake of referring practice to principles, that, in a small garden 

 bounded by right lines, like that before us, it will seldom be desirable to 

 imitate the picturesque manner of gardening, and scarcely ever to form 

 picturesque outlines ; because, as the outline of the whole ought to serve as a 

 guide for the outline of the parts, and as that outline, in the case of the 

 smaller suburban gardens, is generally a square or a parallelogram, or, at all 

 events, a right-lined figure, a picturesque line within would ill harmonise 

 with the other lines ; and, whatever kind of outline we might form on one 

 side of the mass, or group, that on the other side could hardly fail to be geo-. 

 metrical or gardenesque. Thus, for example, if, instead of the definite line 

 q r, in Jig. 59., a ragged line had been substituted, still, though that side 

 would have had a picturesque outline, the other side of the plantation next 



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