LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING is a subject in which we are 
all interested. It is not an abstruse art, shut up 
between the covers of expensive books. It is not 
dependent on the caprice of individuals, nor on the 
fashion of the day. Its laws, like other good laws, 
are consistent with that every-day mathematics — 
common sense. It does not follow, however, that 
these laws are understood by every man of general 
sound judgment. In fact, there is, perhaps, no sub- 
ject on which sensible men act so irrationally, as the 
treatment of their grounds. It is very easy to say 
that the cause is ignorance. This is, in a sense, the 
cause of all our imperfections, and mankind advances 
mainly by augmenting its stock of knowledge. But 
the kind of ignorance in this case, is not unacquaint- 
ance with authors and systems, but misapprehension 
as to the objects to be pursued. Some of these 
objects we propose to point out, and we must first 
notice some of the prevailing misapprehensions. 
We will take first the mistake as to the point of 
view. Probably most people think that they arrange 
