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If it can be so arranged, it is a good idea to secure 

 variations in the seclusion of hedge-rows, or shrub and 

 tree borders, by leaving out trees at considerable inter- 

 vals, and thus securing more distant and agreeable views 

 which, in any case, are valuable for the change they give 

 to the general scope of the scenery. There is naturally, 

 no ordinary limit to the small size of the place or village 

 lot where this hedge-row, or border, can be used effect- 

 ively, because three trees and a dozen shrubs of the 



SUMMER-HOUSE, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK. 



right kind, and rightly arranged, will make, in their way, 

 as satisfactory and agreeable a screen for the hard lines 

 of the fence or stone wall, as if they were replaced by a 

 bordering of shrubs and trees a mile long. Naturally, 

 the normal size of the kinds of shrubs and trees used on 

 narrow, long lots, fifty or seventy-five feet by a hundred 

 and fifty feet, should be much smaller, since the scale of 

 everything is smaller. 



The problem of designing summer-houses, arbors, and 

 what are termed rustic buildings of different kinds, and 

 setting them at suitable points on the lawn, naturally 



