General Principles y^ 



side of the view the means of measuring its full length. A 

 lawn that has its glades flanked with something like rows of 

 low trees or shrubs will seem considerably larger than it is, 

 and will of course present more variety of view. By rows 

 and files, however, is not meant literally what the words 

 express, but an ingenious disposal of the groups and speci- 

 mens so as to have some of the effect which rows would 

 produce. 



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Plan of Proper Grouping 



Should a house be so unfortunately placed as to look 

 obliquely upon one of the boundaries of the property, variety 

 may be occasioned by drawing lines from the best windows of 

 the house, at different distances, in the direction of that 

 boundary, fig. 21, and jutting forward the plantation or speci- 

 mens along some of these lines into the lawn or field, leaving 

 deep irregular bays or recesses between all such projections, 

 these bays or openings being marked, in the figure, by arrows 

 between dotted lines. Not that the plants should be put in 

 rows along a portion of either of these lines, but spotted about 



