Landscape Gardening 



there may be an unexpected demand for them, will generally 

 be a heavy tax upon patience and time. The situation ought 

 likewise to be within reach, by an easy and pleasant walk, 

 of some suitable place of worship. 



It should be recollected that roads on which there is much 

 traffic bring a large amount of dust at certain seasons, while 

 they render a house and garden more exposed to observation 

 from the foot-passengers or the travelers on public vehicles. 

 A place on a small and less frequented road, at a little dis- 

 tance from a great highway, will therefore be more comfort- 

 able and more secluded than one which lies by the side of a 

 turnpike road. And this view of the case will further serve 

 to show the undesirableness of having a property entirely 

 surrounded by roads. Arable lands, fields, open country, or 

 other gardens and private estates, will be the best possible 

 accompaniments on all the southerly sides of a place. 



Anything in the way of a public path crossing a property, 

 and severing it into two parts, or a public road passing across 

 a plot in the same manner, would seriously prejudice its 

 value. When such things are carried through an estate with- 

 out being fenced off, they lay bare certain portions of it to 

 the public eye, and, what is worse, subject it to continual 

 trespass. And to fence off a path or road of this description 

 would greatly mutilate a place, and give it a small and con- 

 fined appearance. Nor is it at all easy to get established 

 pathways diverted, unless a more direct route can be pre- 

 pared for them. The nuisance of having a place thus open 

 to the use of all, in populous districts, can hardly be exag- 

 gerated. 



In this, as in a variety of similar cases, however, circum- 

 stances that would be inconvenient and objectionable to most 

 persons might be altogether unproductive of annoyance to 

 others; for no rule of Hfe is more true or of more universal 



