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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



by a cap of fir or larch placed on every swell. 

 Whereas, had the plantation on one knoll 

 extended into the hollow, it would have more 

 strongly marked the depth between it and 

 the corresponding swell on the other side of 

 the valley ; on which swell a looser plantation 

 might flow half way down, connecting it again, 

 by a straggling group or two, with some other 

 mass of wood. 



No. 72. of the Quarterly Review incul- 

 cates this lesson with great force and taste : 

 the passage will be found worthy of attentive 

 perusal. 



" The improver ought to be governed by 

 " the natural features of the ground, in choos- 

 " ing the shape of his plantations, as well as 

 " in selecting the species of ground to be 

 " planted. A surface of ground undulating 

 " into eminences and hollows forms, to a 

 " person who delights in such a task, per- 

 " haps, the most agreeable subject on which 

 " the mind of the improver can be engaged. 

 " He must take care, in this case, to avoid 

 " the fatal yet frequent error, of adopting 

 " the boundaries of his plantation from the 

 " surveyor s plan of the estate, not from the 

 " ground itself. He must recollect, that the 



