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be covered with climbing plants, trained 

 on open lattice, to defend from the sun : 

 these seats surround a small court-yard, to 

 be kept locked, in which may be sheds for 

 gardeners tools, and other useful purposes. 

 A few years hence, when the present 

 patches of shrubs shall have become thick- 

 ets, — when the present meagre rows of 

 trees shall have become an umbrageous 

 avenue, — and the children now in their 

 nurses' arms shall have become the pa- 

 rents or grandsires of future generations, 

 — this square may serve to record, that 

 the Art of Landscape Gardening in the 

 beginning of the nineteenth century was 

 not directed by whim or caprice, but 

 founded on a due consideration of utility 

 as well as beauty, without a bigotted 

 adherence to forms and lines, whether 

 straight, or crooked, or serpentine. 



Examples I" tliosc placcs whcrc thc house already 



dependant cxists, aud tlic charactcT is fixed, the 



on peculiar , . • ^ i 



circiun- grounds must m a certain degree be 

 accommodated to the style of the house: 

 but where a new house is to be built, its 



stances. 



