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Landscape Gardening 



Unless with long walks, the introduction of basins, sundials, 

 or other figures into their center where another walk crosses 

 them, however effective such things may be in themselves, 

 cannot be commended, since they contribute greatly to 

 shorten the apparent length by breaking it up into two parts 

 and preventing the eye from ranging uninterruptedly along 

 it. Still, in very small places, a group of shrubs for the center 

 figure may enlarge the garden in appearance by conceaHng 

 the shortness of the straight walk. 



No straight walk should pass off from another in an oblique 

 line, or at any but a right angle, as in fig. 26. The oblique 



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Fig. 26. Branching of Straight Walk. 



walks common in the old Dutch style, once so prevalent in 

 England, were only fit for large places, where they were 

 supported by avenues. In small gardens they cut up the 

 lawn seriously, and offensively intrude themselves upon the 

 vision. Indeed, they are not adapted to the Italian style of 

 gardening, which is that chiefly kept in view. 



Every straight walk ought to have an appropriate termi- 

 nation, either in the way of an architectural object or an 

 evergreen plant that takes a regular and symmetrical shape. 



