T/ieoty and Practice in Landscape-Gardening. 



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A is a house with vistas from its main front in the directions marked with arrows. The open lawn de- 

 sired is indicated at B, and by an undulating line forming the outskirts of it. Four dotted lines, indicated 

 by I, 2, 3, 4, show the division-lines between the various heights of shrubs and trees, in which the distribu- 

 tion of the subjects given as ornament oiitside of the lawn has to take place ; / i, at C, between the lawn 

 itself and the line i, shrubs of from three to ten feet ; between i and 2, on D, shrubs from ten to fifteen or 

 twenty feet ; between 2 and 3, on E, small-sized trees of from twenty to forty ; and, on the last space, trees 

 of the larger and largest size. 



