19^ Landscape Gardening 



be placed for rest or for enjoying a prospect, and clusters of 

 common roses, or particularly sweet-scented flowers, or even 

 patches of strawberry plants, may occasionally be put in to 

 attract persons to use it. Fruit trees may often be used in 

 its plantations for the same purpose. Of course, like the 

 garden walks, it should break away from the boundary fence 

 as freely and irregularly as the space will permit; and it is 

 by no means necessary that the plantation be continuous, as 

 the walk may pass out into the open field or park in a few 

 parts for variety. 



Advantage should be taken of any peculiarities in shrub- 

 bery walks that may be favorable to the cultivation of par- 

 ticular tribes of plants, that the walk may by such means be 

 rendered more interesting. Indeed a walk of this descrip- 

 tion, where the locality allows, may be made into a small 

 arboretum, in so far as one or more families of plants is con- 

 cerned, except that the specimens should not all stand apart 

 and alone, but bs iispsrsed through the fronts of the ordinary 

 plantations and now and then brought together into groups. 

 It might frequently happen in such a walk, too, that a well- 

 contrived little episode, such as would be yielded by convert- 

 ing a small dell or hollow into a rockery or a fern garden, 

 could be easily accomplished. Or a pond for the use of 

 aquatic birds or for the growth of rare water plants might 

 be brought into notice. Or a spot by the side of a shrubbery 

 walk might be selected where a patch might be devoted to 

 wild natural vegetation in which briers, brambles, thorns, 

 honeysuckles, clematis, and other picturesque indigenous 

 plants could be allowed to assume their native luxuriance 

 and tangle together in unrestrained profusion. 



In any case, the sides of the shrubbery walk and the 

 ground beneath its plantations can always be appropriated 

 to the growth of such hardy herbaceous plants as violets. 



