74 Landscape Gardening 



The more prominent the projection of a mass, the better will 

 it be fitted for receiving one or more specimens as an adjunct 

 or extension. By thus adding, in effect, to the bolder points, 

 a much greater play of line will be produced. In the open- 

 ings between the masses, single plants should be very spar- 

 ingly inserted, as they will lessen their size. Still, where an 

 opening extends beyond a walk and is not very narrow a speci- 

 men plant or two, not exactly in the middle of the opening, 

 in the hollow part of the curve of the walk, may often be 



Fig. 19. Group on High Land. 



useful to break the plainness of a bay, and give more occupa- 

 tion to the eye and the fancy. 



On lawns of any considerable breadth, one or two small 

 groups and a few scattered specimens will sometimes be 

 necessary in other parts than at the mere sides (see fig. 20), 

 to communicate length as well as breadth and a larger share 

 of variety. In arranging these groups and specimens regard 

 should be had to several points at which the lawn extends 

 most nearly to the margin of the place in order that, by very 

 irregular and broken files of plants, the eye may be thrown 

 into these furthest recesses and have in the plants on either 



