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or three hundred paces along the boundaries, showing 

 a high plantation of trees: in other places again it 

 should be made up of narrower and lower groups of 

 trees so that over and beyond one can catch glimpses 

 of the outside country. In other places, these far- 

 distant views should be visible above coppices and 

 under isolated trees, standing from among but high 

 above the shrubbery. If a wall surrounds the park 

 this can, at intervals, be allowed freely to emerge, 

 broken only by scattering bushes and trees, and will 

 look best in a ruined or unkempt state, covered with 

 ivy and Virginia creeper, or let the foliage be merged 

 into a building, a gallery, etc. Under such condi- 

 tions the wall will never be a disturbing influence, 

 but an improvement. 



"Along this plantation on the boundary, some- 

 times broad, sometimes narrow, but hardly ever 

 more than 3 ruihen (48 feet), should run irregularly 

 a grass road 24 feet wide. On the side towards the 

 interior of the park begins the mixed plantation for 

 forming a screen for the general view. Here decid- 

 uous-leaved trees predominate and in summer hide 

 the too monotonous evergreen foliage which should 

 be left conspicuous only where it is desirable. It is 

 surprising how such an arrangement enlivens a park 

 even in melancholy winters, and how the lawn or 

 grass path even amid snow and ice, where everything 

 else is bare, makes the most charming walk. The 

 evergreen foreground which covers the boundaries 

 both winter and summer and borders the grass path 



