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gives colour to the whole region, and supplies a want 

 greatly sought after in winter days, although a well 

 grouped and designed park should, even without 

 colour, during all seasons of the year, satisfy our 

 sense of beauty, especially in winter when all ordinary 

 decoration is absent, making an interesting picture 

 by the harmony of its masses of trees, lawns, water, 

 its pleasant lines of paths and banks. That the 

 border plantation of pines and other evergreen trees 

 should be planted so as to appear a natural growth 

 is obvious, and in the chapter on Plantations examples 

 will be given in detail. Meanwhile the sketch in Plate 

 I. will make my views clearer. At a the green path 

 from the park is practically hidden, at b it appears 

 only as a cutting which loses itself in the shrubbery. 



"Along the boundary wall of many English parks, 

 where was carried out in old times the work of Brown 

 and his followers, there runs a path between an almost 

 regular band of foliage planted with shrubs and trees, 

 so that the wall is often conspicuous between the 

 tree trunks. 



"My reader must not confotmd my plan with 

 this English plan, as. the green path I advocate is a 

 part of the lawn, and has no definite distinction from 

 the lawn, but simply melts into it. The EngUsh 

 idea originated in the infancy of landscape gardening, 

 when parks of such size were first laid out, and it was 

 a matter of vanity to make them appear as large as 

 possible; but the means defeated the end, since they 

 ostentatiously pointed out what they should have 



