136 LAWNS 



The open treatment is best adapted to 

 large areas where park-Hke effect is sought. 

 It adds enormously to the apparent distance, 

 and in the hands of a skilful landscape 

 gardener will result in the creation of the 

 most charming compositions and realisations 

 of distant effects. All the beauties of the 

 surrounding landscape may thus be drawn 

 into and made part of the home grounds. 

 The distant lake, the far off hillside, and the 

 rolling masses of upland and dale, should 

 not be lost by excessive belt planting. Judic- 

 ious treatment in this style leads the ob- 

 server's eye, in successive steps from point 

 to point, until he unconsciously connects 

 the whole of the distant landscape with the 

 immediate foreground, and actually deceives 

 himself into a belief of a wide expanse of the 

 property. This is the highest type of land- 

 scape composition, one which is all too little 

 thought of by the majority of owners, who 

 fail to draw into their home pictures the salient 

 features of the natural surroundings. 



If there is a naturally dense planting or wood- 

 land which cuts off the distant scene it should 

 by all means be opened up. "Vistas" 

 should be made. Everything in the outlying 



