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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



SECTION III. 



ON WOOD. 



The beauty of Trees in Rural Embellishments. Pleasure resulting from their cultivation. 

 Character of Country Seats in the United States. Mansion, Villa, Embellished Farm and 

 Cottage residences. Aim of Plantations in the Ancient and Modern Styles; superior e.xpres- 

 sion of the latter. Directions for the arrangement of Plantations in the Modern Style, with 

 illustrations. General classification of trees as to forms, with leading characteristics of each 

 class. 



" He gains all points, wiio pleasingly confounds, 

 Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. 

 Calls in the country, catches opening glades, 

 Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades ; 

 Now breaks, or now directs the intending lines ; 

 ' Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs." 



Pope. 



M O N G all the materials at our disposal 

 for the embellishment of country residences, 

 ••^^^s^i^^^^g^^ none are at once so highly ornamental, so 

 indispensable, and so easily managed, as trees or wood. We 

 introduce them in every part of the landscape, — in the fore- 

 ground as well as in the distance, on the tops of the hills and 

 in the depths of the valleys. They are, indeed, like the dra- 

 pery which covers a somewhat ungainly figure, and while 

 concealina: its defects, communicates to it new interest and 

 expression. 



A tree, undoubtedly, is one of the most beautiful objects in 

 nature. Airy and delicate in its youth, luxuriant and majestic 



