special Features 199 



snowdrops, squills, primroses, lychnis, anemones, narcissus, 

 crocus, harebells, and other showy or early flowering species, 

 which can readily be induced to carpet the ground in' suflS- 

 cient masses to render their effect conspicuous and even 

 striking. Ferns in all their elegant \'ariety may also some- 

 times find a congenial home by the sides of streams or on 

 shelving banks that are brought \^itllin the range of the 

 shrubbery walk. 



To enliven a park or a field, and give life and m.otion to a 

 home scene, sheep and cows may be freely admitted. Sheep 

 of the larger and better breeds are always the most quiet, 

 and crop the grass most evenly, and are less disposed to 

 injure shrubs and trees, such as have been reared in hilly 

 or poor districts being exceedingly wild and objectionable. 

 Horses and colts are particularly mischievous where they can 

 reach the branches of trees, and should therefore generally 

 be kept out. Deer are similarly inclined to damage trees, 

 and when they are admitted will always require extra fenc- 

 ing to keep them from young trees and to prevent them 

 from straying. 



3. Concrete Examples. — From the hmited size of these 

 pages it is ob\'iously impossible to illustrate the treatment 

 of parks of any magnitude. But two or three designs, em- 

 bodying some of the more essential constituents, may now 

 be given. The first I shall present — necessarily on a very 

 small scale — is a plan of the grounds and what may be 

 called the home park of a place which I arranged for Charles 

 Longman, Esq. It is named Shendish, and is between 

 Heme! Hempstead and King's Langley, in Hertfordshire. 

 The house and homestead have been erected on the sum- 

 mit of a hill, where there was an excellent platform for the 

 purpose, and whence the ground descends in a convex form, 

 gently at first but afterwards more abruptly, till it falls into 



