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meeting at the top, and forming a complete arched 

 vista, has peculiar effect; other regular figures have 

 a degree of beauty, and to alter or disguise such a 

 disposition, without destroying a number of fine 

 trees, which cannot well be spared, may sometimes be 

 difficult ; but it hardly ever ought to be chosen in the 

 arrangement of a young plantation. Regularity was 

 once thought essential to every garden, and every 

 approach, and it yet remains in many. It is still a 

 character, denoting the neighbourhood of a gentle- 

 man's habitation; and an avenue as an object in 

 the view gives to the house, otherwise inconsiderable, 

 the air of a mansion. " 



Here in the pleasure ground the sensation produced 

 by the landscape is of more formality, elegance, and 

 finish, in other words, a touch of the spirit of the archi- 

 tecture should appear, retaining still a predominance of 

 the feeling of free nature belonging to the park. The 

 shapes of the flower beds should be more irregular as 

 well as the outlines of the grass spaces, and the walks 

 should be more meandering than in the garden. 



In the garden itself the architectural lines, ovals, 

 straight lines, and circular, or any form that fits the 

 architecture of the mansion or house are admissible. 

 Prince Piickler says in this connexion in his Hints on 

 Landscape Gardening: 



"I might repeat here with some variation what I 

 have said before: as the park is nature idealized 

 within a small compass so the garden is an extended 



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