LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



CHAPTER I 



The Choice of a Place 



From that beautiful variety of taste which brings the com- 

 monest persons into association with the more cultivated, and 

 secures for objects that many would regard as inferior a cer- 

 tain amount of approbation and patronage, scarcely any two 

 individuals will be disposed to select, where there is a full 

 latitude of choice and a thorough knowledge of every peculi- 

 arity, precisely the same spot for a residence. What would 

 perfectly satisfy one might be displeasing to another. The 

 conditions that some would even detest others might actually 

 covet. And this it is, united to the fact that few can obtain 

 exactly all they desire, and that the alternative must gener- 

 ally lie between situations which comprise a greater or less 

 proportion of the required capabilities, that distributes the 

 population of our towns pretty equally over the suburbs, and 

 brings districts into use that would otherwise remain entirely 

 waste or be devoted only to the farmer or the grazier. 



Railways, however, with their annual contracts for con- 

 veyance, and the rapidity, ease, and certainty of transit, are 

 now gradually bringing other parts of the country within the 

 range of selection, and enabling the town merchant or man of 

 business to locate himself from ten to twenty, or even forty 

 or fifty miles from the town, and thus get the benefit of coun- 

 try air and rural pleasures. And from the greater abundance 

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