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than the trees or shrubs will be likely to do for many 

 years. 



In any case, care should be taken to arrange the 

 stables so that they seem either a part of the domain of 

 the house, or appear evidently detached and associated 

 with something else at a considerable distance. It 

 would be unfortunate to locate them in a sort of semi- 

 detached way, isolated, with no apparent connection 

 with the house, which may mean that they are neither 

 sufficiently near nor sufficiently far. There is an unre- 

 lated, detached way of arranging the features of the 

 grounds that will, if used, give the stables a lonesome 

 and inconvenient appearance, and distinctly mar the gen- 

 eral appearance of the place, and it is against this 

 method, or lack of method, that the reader should be 

 specially warned. 



But when we come to contriving various adjustments 

 looking to the development of the beauty of the place, 

 variations of effect may be managed in a dozen ways. 

 By shifting the house a little, fine views heretofore 

 hidden may be opened from the piazza or the porch. 

 Vistas and glimpses of scenery may be made to suddenly 

 appear, or only creep gradually, as the hours of the day 

 and the seasons change, into view of the windows at 

 which the family spend most of their time. It would be 

 enough to repay much thought and contrivance if only 

 one noble tree or fine massive rock were, by some 

 special adjustment of the house site, brought into view 

 of the dining-room or sitting-room. The same line of 

 study will lead to the contrivance of open spaces of level 

 lawn around the house, where an expanse of turf, raised 

 on a terrace, will lend dignity and distinction to the 

 building. The road, inspired by the same desire to de- 



