J^andscape Gardening 



ceptible of some little variation, while the shape of the banks 

 themselves, if worked nicely into the level of the lawn, will 

 give more or less play of surface. If there be a pool of water, 

 a fish pond, or a small lake of varied shape, the sloping of the 

 ground down to either of these will supply the means of get- 

 ting a little more undulation, and the earth taken out to form 

 them may be employed in making increased banks. 



Undulations may exist naturally in a garden or field, and 

 these should be scrupulously preserved and rather be added 

 to than curtailed. As a rule, the bottom of a hollow should 



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Fig. 24. Location of Group on a Knoll. 



never be planted and only portions of its slopes. Planta- 

 tions in hollows lessen their depth, not only in proportion to 

 the height of the plants placed in them, but because the sur- 

 face of a mass of plants is always more or less broken, and a 

 dell so filled will appear several inches or even one or two 

 feet shallower than if it had a smooth grassy bottom. Plant- 

 ing by the margins of streams in hollows is sometimes effec- 

 tive, but it should be decidedly irregular, and in clusters or 

 groups rather than in large masses. When a hollow or glen 



