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ry between the walk and the fence, from 18 to 16, we should say that either 

 the direction of the walk ought to be altered, so as to remove it further 

 from the boundary, or the boundary extended further into the field ; 

 and instead of being bordered by a hedge-like fruige of shrubs, it should 

 only be broken here and there by occasional bushes and trees, connected 

 and harmonizing in position with other trees beyond the fence. If it were 

 desirable to avoid altering the boundary, then we should recommend con- 

 tinuing the walk which commences at d near 19, by n and o o, to ^ near 

 16. If there were nothing to see or be seen beyond the boundary, then, 

 unless the boundary fence were a conservative wall, that is, a wall covered 

 with half-hardy ornamental plants, we should still prefer changing the di- 

 rection of the walk, so as to take away from the monotonous appearance of 

 continually skirting the boundary. In every place, however small, there 

 ought to be some part left which the visiter has not seen, and which may 

 leave the impression on his mind, that, however much he has been shown, 

 he has not seen everything. We make these observations with great de- 

 ference to Mr. Harrison, who has paid much attention to the subject of 

 Landscape Gardening, and shown much practical taste and good sense both 

 in that art and in architecture. 



It is, however, right to state that Mr. Harrison accords with our general 

 view of the subject, but " defends the walk in question as an exception 

 founded on his objects in making it ; which were, 1st, to have a walk dif- 

 ferent from any other in the garden ; and, 2d, a walk sheltered from the 

 winter southerly gales, and ornamented by the bloom of the laurustinus at 

 that season. It is, therefore, so slightly curved as merely to avoid a straight 

 line ; and permits an extent of length not found in any other part to be seen 

 on descending the elevation at the east end, or on emerging from wood at 

 the west end, where, when the improvements connected with it are finish- 

 ed, it will enter a dense plantation, the walk going round at the back of 

 the building in that corner. The fence would have been entirely exclu- 

 ded from either near or distant view, and the eye carried so as not to catch 

 a view of the grounds of the field nearer than one hundred yards or more at 

 the least, if the larustinuses had not suffered so severely in 1837-38 ; but 

 these will, by next year, and by trees already planted along the border, and 

 others to be planted irregularly, at intervals, in the field near the fence, in a 

 great measure, Mr. Harrison thinks, obviate the objection made, or, at least' 



