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others which may remain are almost, if not quite, for- 

 gotten now; while some of the former which have 

 kept pace with man, and are to be found in the newest 

 gardens of to-day, are so different, in their latest garb, 

 from their old-fashioned ancestors, that they will seem 

 almost as strange to us as our own great-great-grand- 

 sires and dames would, if they suddenly appeared be- 

 fore us. 



Garden ideals changed greatly, too, in these hun- 

 dred and seventy-five years; and not always for the 

 better, although to those who witnessed the changes 

 they seemed, as changes usually do, infinite improve- 

 ments. An English writer on husbandry remarks this, 

 in 1785: "Man's fancy," says he, "in plantations (as 

 in most other things) has changed much within these 

 last few years, and I think much for the best." But 

 when he goes on to explain that (with trees) "The 

 taste was formerly to plant all in long close rows, at 

 each side of an avenue, or in hedge rows or in woods ; 

 but the method now is to plant in round, square or 

 angular clump, in different parts of a domain," one 

 may be permitted to feel that his judgment is not alto- 

 gether sound. "Square," "angular," and "round" 

 .clumps of trees do not seem to promise either a pic- 

 turesque effect or a design of grace and quality. Be- 

 sides these remarkable groups, he adds that odd trees 

 are planted in a scattered manner, "up and down lawns 



