120 PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



the park, and where the creation of as large an amount 

 of scenery as is possible within it is an essential ele- 

 ment in its formation, the combinations of masses of 

 plantation will necessarily be fewer, and placed further 

 apart, than where the surface operated on is of an un- 

 dulating, hilly character. Where a large body of wood 

 is required, it is injudicious to form the leading and 

 secondary masses into dense and almost impervious 

 thickets, as is too frequently done ; it is better to ar- 

 range them .into a gradation of masses interspersed 

 with lawns, glades, and other openings, in addition to 

 the rides by which they may be traversed, and the 

 ordinary roads necessary for their management. Where 

 the main masses are small, a similar effect may be 

 produced by lesser openings and indentations. In 

 both cases, groups of trees, and single trees, should be 

 scattered through the glades and along the margins of 

 the larger bodies of wood. This is exemplified in 

 those places in which masses of wood are seen form- 

 ing pleasure-grounds round the mansion-house. We 

 do not mean that these masses of wood in the park 

 should be dissected into as many and as small divi- 

 sions as are often necessary in the dressed grounds ; 

 but there are many places in which the woods are 

 greatly enlivened by such open spaces, and by the 

 addition of a few clumps and groups of single trees, 

 relieving yet attached to the general masses. In hilly 

 and mountainous countries, large masses of wood are 

 sometimes planted, but it is seldom desirable to inter- 

 sect these with wide openings or lengthened glades. 

 •A better effect is produced by bays and indentations, 

 as already recommended. When the woods have been 

 formed, as above explained, into a variety of leading 



