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must evidently be the house, and therefore in devising 

 prominent vistas and near or distant vievrs we must take 

 our stand at or not far from this point. Minor standpoints 

 may of course be taken when some special effect is desired. 

 Failure to contrive the landscape grouping from these 

 established standpoints often weakens if it does not spoil 

 lawn-planting, which is otherwise good and effective. 



The curves of the walks or foot-paths are long and easy, 

 reaching their destination in a natural and pleasing manner. 

 All the junctions of paths and the main curves are planted 

 with shrubbery in an irregular and informal manner. 

 Furthermore, they are usually arranged with a view to 

 suggesting the idea that the path is winding through single 

 masses of flowers. It is not proposed in this plan to reserve 

 any space for a vegetable garden, not only for want of room, 

 but because it is notorious that vegetables thus grown are 

 very expensive and troublesome. If exercise in gardening 

 pursuits is desired, the same amount and a similar kind of 

 work may be had in the culture of trees and shrubs as in 

 that of vegetables with more generally satisfactory results. 

 All necessary objects, not interesting in a picturesque way, 

 such as drying-ground, entrance to the rear of buildings, 

 tool-sheds, etc., should be shut out with deciduous shrubs. 

 The front of these hedges or belts of shrubbery may be 

 diversified by planting here and there occasional choice 

 specimens. 



The extreme end of the grounds may be also entered, 

 if desired, by a path which should wind among shrubbery 

 in somewhat obscure fashion, and come out suddenly on 

 the lawn. The approach or entrance to the house is, in 

 this case, somewhat formal and straight, for the sake of 



