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objector condemn the effort till he can convince the 

 judgement that, without violation of good taste, he could 

 introduce the dairy and the pig-sty (those useful append- 

 ages of rural economy) into the recesses of the drawing- 

 room or the area of the saloon. The difficulty of uniting 

 a park and a farm arises from this material circumstance, 

 that the one is an object of beauty, the other of profit. 

 The scenery of both consists of ground, trees, water, 

 and cattle ; but these are very differently arranged. 

 And since a park is less profitable than arable land, the 

 more we can diminish the quantity of the former, pro- 

 vided it still be in character with the style of the mansion, 

 the less we shall regret the sacrifice of profit to beauty. 



The shape and colour of corn-fields and the straight 

 lines of fences are so totally at variance with all ideas 

 of picturesque beauty that I shall not venture to suggest 

 any hints on the subject of a farm as an ornament ; yet 

 I think there might be a distinction made between the 

 farm of a tenant, who must derive benefit from every 

 part of his land, and that occupied by a gentleman for 

 the purposes of amusement or experiment. 



It is usual in Hampshire, and, indeed, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of many forests, to divide the enclosures of 

 a farm by rows of copse-wood and timber, from ten to 

 twenty yards wide ; at a little distance these rows appear 

 united, and become one rich mass of foliage. This kind 

 of subdivision I should wish to be generally adopted on 

 experimental farms. The advantages of such plantations 

 will be : shady and pleasant walks through the farm ; to 

 afford shelter to corn and protect the cattle which are 

 grazed on the farm ; to give the whole, at a distance, the 

 appearance of one mass of wood; to make an admirable 

 cover for game ; and, lastly, if it should ever hereafter 

 be thought advisable to extend the lawn, such plantations 



