20 INTRODUCTION. 



shrubberies, though under each article we 

 shall state what trees assimilate best in 

 neighbourhood. The style of this kind of 

 garden must depend so much on the extent, 

 situation, and character of the ground, that it 

 would be absurd to offer more than general 

 remarks. 



The plantation should be carefully made 

 to suit the building it is to surround. As the 

 villa and ornamented cottage form the largest 

 portion at present of edifices that claim a 

 pleasure-garden, we shall confine our observ- 

 ations to the grounds attached to these 

 dwellings. As such houses are generally 

 built on situations too flat to admit of much 

 natural variety, the first study should be to 

 find where and how we can break the level 

 by throwing up elevations, so as to answer 

 the double purpose of obscuring private 

 walks, and screening other parts from the 

 wind. But it requires considerable ingenuity 

 to hinder these elevations from having the ap- 

 pearance of artificial ones, which would make 

 them as ridiculous as a circular lake on a 

 lawn. As the removal of earth is attended 

 by the expense of labour only, this is one of 

 the most advantageous manners of laying out 

 money in the formation of a shrubbery, since 

 five feet lowered in one part and raised above 



