112 Landscape Gardening 



where the eye can roam on into the field or country, fig. 276, 

 will often be much more pleasing, the principal walk, in both 

 these examples, having a seat to stop it, and to form the 

 cause of divergence. The above hints about such plantations 

 are founded on the assumption that these will oftentimes be 

 indispensable to cover a boundary fence. When the space 

 opposite the end of the walk can be left open behind what- 

 ever is placed as a terminating object, care should be taken 

 to prevent the eye from being conducted directly to a boun- 

 dary wall or fence or hedge in the field, for should the line 

 lead on to such a point, it must be stopped by a few trees or 

 bushes, or by some mass planting. If the view into the coun- 

 try be a matter worth attaining, some low bushes over which 

 the eye can travel will be enough to block out the fence, and 

 a telescopic sort of peep into the country along a straight 

 walk, which is possibly furnished with specimen plants on 

 either side so as to narrow the vista, will sometimes be 

 exceedingly fine. Whatever is placed at the end of the walk 

 under these circumstances, should always be low and easily 

 seen over. 



A semicircular end to a straight walk, where it is to have 

 an architectural finishing object, fig. 27c, will not be without 

 effect in relieving the Hne and starting it more naturally in 

 another direction. The vase or whatever is used will of 

 course stand at the apex of the curve, fig. 27c?, on the grass, 

 or a semicircular seat, to fit the curved end of the walk, may 

 be a still better termination. To justify a change of direction 

 in straight walks, and soften the abruptness of turning them 

 off at right angles, a vase or something similar may be put 

 just in the center, figs. 2 7^ and 2 7/, where the middles of the 

 two walks would cut each other, and the space which such 

 an object would abstract from the walk be added to the latter 

 all round, so as to produce a sort of small square or circle, of 



