THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 21 
Pictures will illustrate all this. Figures 10, 11 are pictures of 
natural copses. The former stretches along a field and makes a 
10. A native fence-row. 
lawn of a bit of meadow which lies in front of it. The landscape 
has become so small and so well defined by this bank of verdure 
that it has a familiar and personal feeling. The great, bare, 
open meadows are too 
ill-defined and too ex- 
tended to give any do- 
mestic feeling; but here 
is a part of the meadow 
set off into an area 
that one can compass 
with his affections. 
These masses in 
Figs. 10, 11, and 12 
have their own intrin- 
sic merits, as well as their office in defining a bit of nature. One 
is attracted by the freedom of arrangement, the irregularity of 
11. Birds build their nests here. 
