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parts, so as to increase the effect of their fullness; and any 

 weeping specimens, or such as naturally send forward their 

 branches in a more horizontal direction, should be placed 

 here with the same object. In the hollows or bays, on the 

 contrary, the planting should retire nearly to the upper sur- 

 face of the mound, the turf, of course, following the line of 

 planting within a foot or two in both cases. Grass may 

 even be carried over the edge of the mound in some of the 

 hollows, and so far across it as just to leave room for a few 

 shrubs to cover the wall or fence that may happen to be 

 behind. Or, if there be nothing to conceal, some of the 

 lowest hollows may have a glade of grass carried entirely 

 across them, which will greatly reheve and lighten a lengthy 

 range. 



According to the several purposes for which mounds are 

 used should be their ordinary treatment. If for covering 

 boundary fences they ought to be almost entirely planted 

 and should also be continuous. Where they are placed 

 between parallel walks, to separate them from each other, if 

 they are of any length, several of their hollows can be turfed 

 through, leaving a low specimen plant or two on the grass 

 irregularly in one or two of them. They may also have 

 more of undulation than those of the former class. If a 

 mound be made to furnish a good view of the garden or a 

 prospect of the neighbouring country from its summit, great 

 height should never be attempted in a small place, and it 

 should, if possible, form part of a range that it may not 

 appear too conspicuous and unconnected. The breadth must 

 constantly bear some proportion to the height or it will seem 

 glaringly artificial and a mere conceit. Besides it will be 

 difficult to convey a walk to its summit unless there is some 

 breadth to wind around. 



Such a mound as the last-named may be partially planted 



