PAEKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS . 



he who wishes to enjoy the luxuries of a fine park, 

 and its pleasure-grounds in their natural connection, 

 will seek by any other process than in following out 

 the agreeable natural features of the place, to create 

 them into a fitness to his purpose. Bare spots may 

 have to be clothed with trees and shrubbery, unsightly 

 places may have to be partially leveled, or filled, and 

 waste places made verdant ; but no violence to the 

 prevailing features of the adjoining territory should be 

 attempted. It should look, when the hand of man has 

 improved it, as if nature herself might have done the 

 same : that man had only washed her face, and combed 

 her hair, and given her a more attractive garb.' — Ed. 



