56 HAND-BOOK OF PBACnOAfL 



Landscape or Homt Adommtnt. 



Dipping into m;^ pordolio a few days since, and lookiBg ov«r 

 sketches 'of plati^ that I •had made fot Various gardens, ,it 

 occurred to me that perhaps some of these skeleton plans miglat 

 be of use in communicating ideas for working up some new 

 place about to be created by a reader of futsA art, and theil'efoi-e 

 I have transcribed and here offer two of them. 



As the style of the house, architecturally,- as well as the 

 association of the neighboring lots, has touch to do with the kind 

 of trees to be planted, I have omitted any detail, becaXise such 

 detail would be of little or no avail. I will merely say that if 

 the house is a square character, with a flat roof and standing on 

 nearly level land, then the prevailing charafiDfer of the trees 

 should be of a round-headed habit; but if the house is of a 

 pointed gothic, or with mafty broken yet harmonious lines, and 

 its location on some elevated position, then spiral and pointed 

 trees should be largely introdueed, and especially near the 

 house. 



This was designed fof a lot the elevation of which at the house 

 is some six feet or more above the grade at %hfe public street, awd 

 the house situated about two hundred and -fifty feet back there- 

 from. 



The bWtier of this desired as few paths and roads as could bte, 

 and meet the actual daily travel demand. Neither <did he "want 

 provision for many flower-bedfi, as he only k«pt one man to care 

 for horses, garden and all work. The bfeds next the pnblic toad 

 are designed to be planted with floiw^Big shrubs, in order to 

 break a little the lawn from open exposure. So the bed on the 

 right of entrance footpath is to be planted with shrubSj ktd also 

 that where the carriage-road comes near the boundary to the left. 



