260 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



As the garden (or pleasure ground, as it is 

 commonly called,) approaches nearer the house 

 than the park, it takes, of course, a higher polish. 

 Here the lawns are shorn, instead of being 

 grazed. The roughness of the road is changed 

 into an elegant gravel walk ; and knots of flowers 

 and flowering shrubs are introduced, yet blended 

 with clumps of forest trees, which connect it with 

 the park. Single trees, also, take their station 

 here with great propriety. The spreading Oak 

 or Elm are no disgrace to the most ornamented 

 scene. It is the property of these noble plants to 

 harmonize with every species of landscape. ■ They 

 equally become the forest and the lawn ; only, 

 here, they should be beautiful in tlieir kind, and 

 luxuriant in their growth. Neither the scathed, 

 nor the unbalanced, Oak would suit a polished 

 situation. 



Here, too, if the situation suits it, the elegant 

 temple may find a place. But it is an expensive, 

 a hazardous, and often a useless decoration. If 

 more than one, however, be introduced in the 

 same view, they crowd the scene, unless it be 

 very extensive. More than two should in no 



