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On Laying out and Planting 



for the sake of variety, and the striking effect which it would produce from 

 its novelty. At present, the most general mode of laying out pleasure-grounds, 

 whether on a small or on a large scale, is to adopt the architectural, or the 

 Italian, style, immediately on the lawn front of the house ; and, where this 

 style terminates, to commence either with the picturesque or the garden- 

 esque style. We shall illustrate these two modes by two sketches. Fig. 47. 



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Fig. 47. A Lawn laid out in the Gardenesqzie Style. 



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represents a small pleasure-ground, laid out in the gardenesque st3le, 

 with the trees and shrubs in vertical profile ; a b represents a terrace- 

 garden, embracing the house on three sides ; the fourth being the en- 

 trance front. The general surface of the ground is supposed to be flat, 

 but the terrace is raised 6 or 8 feet above it, as indicated by the steps 

 at a and b. At the !base of the steps, the ground may be supposed 

 to be 3 ft. above the general surface, whence it slopes gradually till it becomes 

 united with it. A walk commences at a, and is continued by d and c to b. 

 On the supposition that the grounds are more extensive than is shown in the 

 figure, a second walk commences at d, and is continued through a shrubbery 

 to the kitchen-garden and farm, from which it returns by c ; so that either a 

 long walk or a short one may be taken without going over the same ground 

 twice. There are two circles marked w w, which represent basins of water 

 for watering the beds, and for a few of the most showy water plants. All 

 the beds are circular, and vary in diameter from 18 in. to 3 ft. All the naked 

 circles are supposed to be planted with flowers, one kind in a bed ; or tem- 

 porary shrubs, such as roses, cistuses, &c. ; while the others are planted 

 chiefly with flowering shrubs, some beds containing among these a low or fas- 

 tigiate tree. The greater number of the shrubs are supposed to be rhodo- 

 dendrons, azaleas, kalmias, lilacs, roses, cistuses, and other shrubs which 

 make a great show when in flower, and form compact bushes at all times. 



