1 82 Landscape Gardening 



ings, on the other hand, already Hght and playful, full of 

 variety, and abounding in small decorations, require more 

 of the depth and breadth of foliage for which round-headed 

 trees are conspicuous, to bring out their elegance, and impart 

 at the same time a more substantial character. 



Trees can, without impropriety as to appearance, be placed 

 nearer to a Gothic than a Grecian house. Gothic architec- 

 ture is rather improved by a framework of trees; Grecian 

 only just tolerates them. With either style, however, the 

 sudden dip of the building to connect with it a low wing, or 

 the equally abrupt rise to form a tower, may often be softened 

 with advantage by the introduction of a good and appro- 

 priate tree in the angle, if this does not cover any window or 

 other detail of consequence. In the same way a suitable 

 lower plant or shrub or group of shrubbery in a deep angle 

 of the building, or at a very bare corner of it, will sometimes 

 divest it of a cold and naked appearance, and adorn rather 

 than deface it. If one corner of a building stands higher 

 above the level of the garden than the other, as will some- 

 times be the case on sloping land, it will particularly require 

 help from a good large shrub or group at the corner that 

 rises most out of the earth, to give it the requisite balance. 



The liigh ends of buildings frequently demand some kind 

 of plants to support them, and take off the hardness of their 

 edges. No building should appear altogether naked and alone, 

 but should form a constituent part of a landscape. If the 

 lines therefore be not duly carried down in the building itself 

 and blended with those of the ground — a thing which can 

 very rarely be accomplished — the effect of connection should 

 be attained by accompan3dng trees. Where a house is placed 

 on a knoll, mound, or other kind of elevation, some such 

 assistance becomes all the more essential. But the trees 

 need not in all cases approach closely to the end of the build- 



