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when shrubs are planted along their edges. Certain 

 circumstances, however, no doubt warrant a greater 

 amount of ornament thau we have considered to be 

 generally necessary. The approach, on its way from 

 the entrance-gate to the mansion-house, may pass only 

 through woods and pleasure-grounds, or at most may 

 only skirt the grass lands of the park, and be separated 

 from them by permanent fences. In these situations 

 the sides of the approach, except where they are narrow 

 stripes, afford available space and opportunity for col- 

 lections of exotic trees and taller shrubs ; but dwarf 

 shrubs, unless required for the completion of an arbo- 

 retum group, should be reserved for the flower-garden. 



Note. — We are delighted at the good sense of an 

 author who ignores the affectation so ambitiously 

 practiced by many landscape-gardeners, in sticking a 

 park full of the meaningless things which have no fit 

 place other than in an arboretum, or on the smoother 

 grounds about the mansion. The outer park is nature's 

 own dressing-room, filled with robes, ample, full, and 

 flowing. There let the trees and shrubs native to the 

 place have wide sweep in luxuriant profusion. If they 

 be meager in variety, it may be filled with other 

 kinds, but equally natural to the soil and climate. We 

 have seen a long road, through a comparatively wild 

 park, bordered with choice roses, vines, and shrubbery 

 held up by trellises, and protected by railings, all out 

 of place, and good-keeping. Such should be for the 

 lawns, and pleasure-grounds, and they have no business 

 out of them. The natural tree, the rugged rock, the 

 tumbling stream, the quiet lake, and the tangled brush- 

 wood, are features which most attract, and specially 

 belong to the park alone. — Ed. 



