Practical Considerations 



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or shrubs should tower out, here and there above the rest, 

 but they must not be unsupported. (See figs. 49 and 50.) 

 Their edges should blend with other forms by the softest 

 transition. Boldness, as well as easiness of change, will be 

 highly effective. But it should be Hke the bold swell of a 

 general curve, composed, it may be, of several parts, but the 

 outer of these gradually carrying down the Une to the lower 

 and humbler forms. Or, if the more spiry plants now and 

 then find a place, as they may do most usefully, to give greater 

 change and strength of character, they should not rise very 



Fig. 51. How to Plant a Hill. 



much above the rest and should appear to belong to a group 

 of the more spreading and clustering kinds, hke the spire of 

 a church peering out from ainid a grove of ancient elms. 



On estates where there are sufficient variations of surface 

 and extent of property to admit of the introduction of such 

 a feature, a most happy effect may sometimes be produced 

 by partially planting the summit and slope of an adjacent 

 hill (fig. 51), so as to convey the idea of large woods, of 

 which the parts seen are but the straggling arms or offshoots 

 lying behind and on the other face of the hill. And if treated 

 with proper boldness and regard to diversity, such masses of 



