96 Landscape Gardening 



in a garden, and if placed improperly become more offensive 

 and obstructive. An error into which the unpracticed com- 

 monly fall is in making the whole spotty by the too liberal 

 insertion of single trees, or by needless interruptions to the 

 breadth and continuity of glades. The glades are of the very 

 last importance, and should from the house, the drive, and 

 the chief walks in the pleasure grounds, be quite unmistak- 

 able and decided, although their edges must, Hke those of 

 the glades in the garden, be irregularly furnished. Of course 

 the glades in the pleasure grounds and those in the park 

 should unite, and continue expanding in the latter till they 

 reach the boundary, where by means of a low fence or of 

 only small bushes they must be carried forward into the 

 more remote distance. 



Single trees in a park, however beautiful they may be as 

 individual specimens, ought not to be very freely multiplied, 

 and should rather as a rule attach themselves as offshoots 

 to clumps and groups than stand entirely alone. It is masses 

 of trees, varying in number from two to twelve or fifteen, and 

 exhibiting the most irregular arrangements and combinations, 

 that are cliiefly suitable for parks. Occasionally seven or 

 eight trees of the same kind as the weeping birch, planted 

 near to each other, will, when the heads are thrust out by 

 the expansion of the interior trees, cause the stems to become 

 crooked and to assume the most picturesc^ue outlines. Such 

 a group would have the happiest effect on the edge of a rough 

 slope or on comparatively broken ground. 



In shaping the land, too, while a certain amount of smooth- 

 ness and ease is desirable in the ground lines where they 

 approximate to a garden, a greater degree of roughness and 

 irregularity should be preferred towards the outer boundaries 

 of the park, thus assisting to render the transition from the 

 garden to the land beyond as gradual and as gentle as possible. 



