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area into compartments, borders, terraces, walks, &c. 

 These matters are partly regulated by the character 

 of the house, its situation, the section and outline of 

 the ground. But gardens should, if possible, lie 

 towards the best parts of the house, or towards the 

 rooms most commonly in use by the family, and 

 endeavour should be made to plant them so that to 

 step from the house on to the terrace, or from the 

 terrace to the various parts of the gardens, should 

 only seem like going from one room to another. 



Of the arrangement of the ground into divisions, 

 each section should have its own special attractive- 

 ness and should be led up to by some inviting 

 artifice of archway, or screened alley of shrubs, or 

 " rosery " with its trellis-work, or stone colonnade ; 

 and if the alley be long it should be high enough to 

 afford shade from the glare of the sun in hot weather ; 

 you ought not, as Bacon pertinently sa} T s, to " buy 

 the shade by going into the sun." 



Again, the useful and the beautiful should be 

 happily united, the kitchen and the flower garden, 

 the way to the stables and outbuildings, the orchard, 

 the winter garden, &c., all having a share of con- 

 sideration and a sense of connectedness ; and if 

 there be a chance for a filbert walk, seize it ; that at 

 Hatfield is charming. " I cannot understand," says 

 Richard Jefferies (" Wild Life in a Southern County," 

 p. 70), " why filbert walks are not planted by our 

 modern capitalists, who make nothing of spending 

 a thousand pounds in forcing-houses." 



A garden should be well fenced, and there should 



