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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 





[Fig. 3- View of a Country Residence, as frequently seen.] 



In many parts of the union where new residences are being 

 formed, or where old ones are to be improved, the grounds 

 will often be found partially, or to a considerable extent, 

 clothed with belts or masses ofwood, either previously planted? 

 or preserved from the woodman's axe. How easily one may 

 turn these to advantage in the natural style of Landscape 

 Gardening ; and by judicious trimming when too thick, or 

 additions when too much scattered, the happiest effects may 

 often be elicited in a magical manner ! In the accompanying 

 sketch, (fig. 3), the reader will recognise a portrait of a 

 hundred familiar examples existing with us of the places of 

 persons of considerable means and intelligence, where the 

 house is not less meagre than the stiff approach leading to it, 

 bordered with a formal belt of trees. The succeeding sketch, 

 (fig. 4), exhibits this place as improved agreeably to the 

 principles of modern Landscape Gardening, not only in the 

 plantations, but in the house, which appears tastefully alter- 

 ed from a plain unmeaning parallelogram, to a simple old 

 English cottage, and in the more graceful approach. Effects 

 like these, are within the reach of very moderate means, and 

 are peculiarly worth attention in this country, where so much 

 has already been partially, and often badly executed. 



