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[Fig. 23. View of a Picturesque fiirm (ferme ornie).] 



or pastured. The fields in crops are designated h, on the 

 plan ; and a few picturesque groups of trees are planted, 

 or allowed to remain, in these, to keep up the general 

 character of the place. A low dell, or rocky thicket, is 

 situated at i,. Exceedingly interesting and agreeable 

 effects may be produced, at little cost, in a picturesque 

 farm of this kind. The hedges may be of a great variety 

 of suitable shrubs, and, in addition to those that we have 

 named, we would introduce others of the sweet brier, the 

 Michigan or prairie rose (admirably adapted for the 

 purpose), the flowering crab, and the like — ^beautiful and 

 fragrant in their growth and blossoms. These hedges we 

 would cause to grow thick, rather by interlacing the 

 branches, than by constant shearing or trimming, which 

 would give them a less formal, and a more free and 

 natural air. The winding lanes traversing the farm -need 



