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PRACTICE OF GARDENING 



Part III. 



triangles, or trapeziums, the 

 more minute parts, charac- 

 terised by lines rather than 

 forms, such as avenues, rows, 

 clumps, and stars, &c. are 

 contained in parallelograms, 

 squares, or circles. In regard 

 to the parts, masses and ave- 

 nues should extend from the 

 house in all directions, so 

 far as to diffuse around the 

 character of design ; and as 

 much farther in particular di- 

 rections as the nature of the 

 surface admits of, the distant 

 beauties suggest, and the cha- 

 racter of the mansion requires. 

 In disposing these masses, 

 whether on a flat or irregu- 

 lar surface, regard will be had 

 to leave uncovered such a 

 quantity of lawn or turf as 

 shall, at all events, admit a 

 free circulation of air, give 

 breadth of light, and display 

 the form of the large masses 

 of wood. Uniformity and 

 variety as a whole, and use 

 as well as beauty in the parts, 

 must be kept constantly in 

 view. Avenues, alleys, and 

 vistas, should serve as much 

 as possible as roads, walks, 

 lines of fences, or screens of 

 shelter or shade ; but where 

 this is not the case, they should 

 point to some distant beauties, 

 or near artificial objects, to be 

 seen at or beyond their termi- 

 nation. The outer extremities 

 of artificial plantations may 

 either join natural woods, 

 other artificial scenes, culti- 

 vated lands, or barren heaths 

 or commons. 



7206. When artificial plant- 

 ations join natural woods, the 

 avenues, alleys, and circular 

 glades of the former may be con- 

 tinued a certain length in the 

 latter, so that the point where the natural wood begins, and the artificial plantation ends, 

 may not be discoverable. In aid of this effect, the sort of tree which prevails in the natural 

 scenes, should also prevail in the adjoining parts of the artificial wood. When artificial 

 scenes join other artificial scenes, nothing can be easier than by the reciprocal continuation 

 of avenues, strips, or masses, so far to unite the two seats, as to conceal the boundaries of 

 each, while the two mansions will thus each borrow a splendor from the other. There 

 are still existing proofs of the attention paid to this subject in former times, an instance 

 of which occurs in the apparent connection by avenues between Blenheim, Ditchley, 

 and Heythrop, though the last mansion is nearly ten miles distant from the first. 



7207. When artificial scenes join cultivated lands, if those lands are enclosed, broad 

 strips, hedge-rows, square or round clumps in the angles of the fields, with such reci- 

 procal disposition of lines or forms as the case may suggest, will continue the character 

 of artificial plantation ; and where roads are necessary, if utility does not forbid, they 

 should be formed in part as avenues, in continuation of those within the artificial scene. 



7208. When artificial plantations are bounded by barren heaths or commons, all that can 

 be done is to advance beyond the boundary of the place portions of avenues, and rows 

 of trees of different lengths. Sometimes an inequality, crowned by a clump or thicket, 



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