1 76 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



Again, it comes within the domain of landscape 

 art to secure an agreeable lookout from the door and 

 the cherished windows of the country homestead, 

 whatever may be its situation. Accident or choice 

 of site may, indeed, secure this beyond question ; 

 but, site being established, where views are limited 

 or obnoxious objects fret the eye, it is surprising 

 what may be done by judicious planting, and the 

 re-adjustment of walls or fencing or hedging, to ofier 

 the pleasant lookout we demand, though it be bound- 

 ed by a gunshot. With a reach of twenty rods 

 before one's eye and in one's keeping, there is no 

 possible excuse for not giving it charming objects to 

 rest upon objects that will not pall, but grow upon 

 the affections of every true lover of the country. 



Your neighbor's slatternly barn troubles you 

 plant it out ; the toss of the tops of hemlocks will 

 not be odious. A wavy bald wall irritates you ; if 

 needed as a barrier, cover it with wild vines, or flank 

 it with hedging, or so plant your coppices on either 

 side, in and out, that its line shall be indistinguish- 

 able. Is there a low bit of sedgy ground that can be 

 made nothing of, for the reason that the adjoining 

 proprietor (who holds the lower lands) will enter 

 into none of your schemes of drainage ? Plant it 

 with rhododendrons and the red-berried alder ; or if 

 it be a mere morass, tumble into it a few of the 



