192 SHRUBS AND TREES. 



leaving occafional openings where thought 

 expedient for piofpecl from particular dif- 

 trids, generally in extending the plantations, 

 keep the extreme part of the lawn fomewhat 

 open in the front of the houfe, not to inter- 

 cept the view, or the lawn may terminate in 

 a ha-ha, or water, .Sec. as formerly obferved, 

 to admit of extending the profped over diflant 

 premifes ; and in the fide plantations a fpace 

 may be allotted for a ferpentine gravel walk 

 winding between the compartments of trees 

 and fhrubs, for private, fhady, and Iheltered 

 v/alking, or communicating with more open 

 and fpacious walks and diilridls in different 

 part§ of the ground. 



Or in thole extending or running orna- 

 mental plantations, having a ferpentine walk 

 winding through the middle, may have tree 

 kinds of taller growth placeU" outwardly, 

 with others of lower growth, and fhrubs 

 placed more or lefs forward, according to 

 their degrees of height, proceeding on each 

 fide from the talleft trees behind, in a gra- 

 dual order to the loweft fhrubs next the 

 walk. 



And different parts of large pleafure- 

 grcunds may alfo be diverfified with detached 

 groves, clumps, groups, trees dotted fingly, 

 and by two, three, and feveral together, in 

 various forms, with intervals of grafs ground 

 between, or fome in rows along the fides of 

 grand walks; the trees placed at fome back- 

 ward diilance therefrom, with lower (lirubs 



&c. 



