General Principles "jj 



between any two of them in larger or smaller patches. The 

 plants at the end of such recesses should Hkewise be the 

 lowest by which the boundary can be hidden, to carry the eye 

 as far as possible beyond them. This will tend to mitigate 

 the meagernessof the estate on that side and give some degree 

 of relief and change in the place of a hard and monotonous 

 line of fence or plantation. 



A leading point to keep in mind in the disposal of single 

 plants and masses on lawns is, in fine, that they have to form, 

 furnish, support, and give extent to a variety of glades, vistas, 

 and recesses. From the drawing- or sitting-room windows of 

 the house, therefore, this arrangement should be principally 

 considered and fully sustained. No specimen should stand 

 out in the middle of a glade, or destroy the coatinuity of a 

 vista, or be thrust forward into the sides of ^-recess. Nor 

 should a group be placed otherwise than to create and main- 

 tain these various features, or ever fill up, except very par- 

 tially, those bays in which a greater length of lawn can be 

 obtained. 



The house must always be regarded as the chief point of 

 vision in a place, and the best views of the grounds should 

 consequently be had from it The windows of a house are 

 most used for looking at a garden, and the points of interest 

 can there be inspected more leisurely. For these reasons, 

 and because occasional visitors see a garden more from the 

 windows of the house, it is a good plan in laying out a garden 

 to form a series of lines radiating from one, two, or three 

 principal windows of the house, at irregular distances apart, 

 towards the outside boundary, and to place the requisite 

 specimens and groups of plants solely within certain of the 

 triangles thus made, according as they may be wanted, never 

 suffering the specimens nearest the house to be so large as 

 to cover a greater space at the broad end of the triangle 



