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generally be sufficient, and it may be put in a promi- 

 nent position on a lawn, or be made a center-piece in 

 .the flower-garden. 



(6.) The Leading Varieties of Villa Scenery. — . 

 At the beginning of this section we have mentioned a 

 distinction which we should be glad to see generally 

 recognized and observed in the laying-out of small 

 residences, viz : the predominance in each case of the 

 pleasure-ground or park character, according as the 

 .nature of the ground may suggest, or the taste of the 

 proprietor might dictate. We would have the pleas- 

 ure-ground villa and the park villa, and we would 

 employ in each a distinctive style of ornament. In 

 the following remarks, which are to be supposed as 

 applicable more particularly to residences of from 

 three to ten acres, we shall endeavor to keep this dis- 

 tinction in view. "When the domain extends to twelve, 

 fourteen, or twenty acres, it may be treated rather as 

 a park than as a villa. 



The Pleasure-ground V^illa. — In this, the more 

 ornamental form of a minor residence, the whole of 

 the ground not covered by the house and offices is 

 taken up with the gardens and dressed grounds. The 

 lawns are, speaking comparatively, of considerable 

 extent ; the groups and clumps of trees and shrubs are 

 very much as are common in pleasure-grounds of 

 moderate dimensions, and the execution of the whole 

 is careful and unobtrusively elaborate. 



The first object aimed at is, by means of a skillful 

 distribution of the principal masses of trees and shrubs, 

 to conceal the kitchen-garden and offices, and more 

 particularly the boundaries of the place. The ap- 

 proach, too, should be screened or masked. The next 



