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more enriched, till the saloon or drawing-room, which is the 

 most showy of all, is arrived at, so, in the outdoor domain, 

 the exterior look, while unexceptionable, should be quiet and 

 by no means attractive, the approach private and not adorned 

 with flowers, the pleasure garden a little more enriched, and 

 the front of the house, with its lawn and flower-beds or flower 

 garden, be in the very highest style of art and beauty. It 

 may, perhaps, be impossible to develop this system of arrange- 

 ment fully, in consequence of the shape, size, or peculiar 

 accessibility of the land, or from other local considerations. 

 But the more thoroughly it is inwoven into the plan of the 

 place, the more perfect and pleasurable will that place be 

 made. 



Where the best parts of a garden are open to every one 

 who approaches from the outside road to the house, there is 

 not merely no privacy, but nothing to mark any distinction 

 between the treatment of friends and casual callers. All the 

 delight of showing the former round the garden, and reveal- 

 ing its more sacred and elaborate features, is completely sacri- 

 ficed if they can see them before reaching the house. In this 

 respect, a garden should be a sort of practical climax. 



10. Apparent Extent. — A great deal of ingenuity is often 

 demanded to give apparent extent to a place that is, in fact, 

 extremely small. There are several ways of contributing to 

 the attainment of this. Attention to some of the points 

 already discussed will partly accomplish it. If a garden be 

 simple in its plan, there will be a good deal of open space in it, 

 and a dash of intricacy will rather heighten than diminish 

 such an effect. Harmony of parts will further maintain the 

 idea of size, for, where everything is linked together to form 

 a united whole, there will be none of that distractedness of 

 attention and division of interest which tend to make a 

 small place appear still smaller. Repose is indispensable to 



