48 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



distinction can be maintained thus : Near the house the planting 

 should be finer, and of trees and shrubs that are not indigenous ; 

 or, rather, such trees and shrubs may be abundantly used there, to 

 produce their effect ; for the introduction into a district of plants 

 not indigenous to it marks an innovation, as it were, and shows the 

 hand of man. Such plants or trees must be sparingly used, or not 

 at all, in the park, where an object is to conceal the fact that all 

 is not due to nature in its local development. Both the character 

 of the trees and shrubs, as well as th,e disposing of them, should 

 not militate against this idea. The plants used in the garden 

 should be those that in their growth, tint of foliage, and colour of 

 flower, are delicate, rare, of neat outline, and such as we are 

 accustomed to connect in idea with the garden. The more 

 varied sizes of the groups will conduce to a like impression. Such 

 association of idea with particular plants is necessarily a fanciful 

 and changing one, because of the frequent introduction of hardy 

 trees and shrubs from other countries to be naturalised here ; but 

 it nevertheless plays an important part in landscape gardening. 



In the garden we should group the plants with regard to sorts, 

 to colour, to form, and to size ; but such groups will necessarily 

 be small, and they should admit of a view of the individual plant. 

 This particularising of the individual plant differentiates the planting 

 of a garden from that of the park and plantations beyond. In the 

 outside plantations, massing takes the place of grouping, as the 

 effect to be produced is generally realised from a distance, and gives 

 contrast in colour and shape. In the garden we have, to a certain 

 extent, a collection of plants ; in the park we have plantations. In 

 the former, a grouping of plants should be made in different positions ; 

 and though bare repetition, or balanced uniformity, should be sedulously 

 avoided, yet the several clumps should have an inoffensive relation one 

 to the other that should illustrate the oneness of the composition. 



