36 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



vated taste for Botany and Horticulture, and a desire to ex- 

 hibit every variety of rare ornamental tree and plant, than 

 upon any new element of desian. As its characteristic fea- 

 tures are little known here, we shall place them before the 

 reader as they have been delineated by Mr. Loudon. 



'Where the ^arc^ene^^^ie style of imitating nature is to be 

 employed, the trees and herbaceous plants must be separated ; 

 and instead of being grouped together as in forest scenery, 

 where two trees, or a tree and a shrub often appear to spring 

 from the same root, every gardenesque group mu.st consist of 

 trees which do not touch each other, and which only become 

 groups by being as near together as is practicable without 

 touching, and by being apart from large masses, or from sin- 

 gle trees or rows of trees. It is not meant by this, that in the 

 gardenesque, the trees composing a group should all be equal- 

 ly distant from one another: for in that case they would not 

 form a whole, which the word group always implies. On 

 the contrary, though all the trees in a gardenesque group 

 ought to be so far separated from each other as not to touch, 

 yet the degrees of separation may be as different as the de- 

 signer chooses, provided the idea of a group is never lost 

 sight of. 



In laying out grounds, it is necessary always to bear in 

 mind the difference between the gardenesque and the pictur- 

 esque, that is, between a plantation made merely for pictur- 

 esque effect, and another made for gardenesque effect. In 

 planting, thinning, and pruning, in order to produce the lat- 

 ter effect, the beauty of every individual tree and shrub, as 

 a single object is to be taken into consideration, as well as 

 the beauty of the mass ; while in planting, thinning, and 

 pruning for picturesque effect, the beauty of individual trees 

 or shrubs is of little consequence, because no tree or shrub in 



