214 PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



pasture-land, arranged into one larger or two smaller 

 fields to suit convenience ; wliile the remaining space is 

 allotted to the house and its offices, the kitchen garden, 

 and lawns with the appended shrubheries. Por example, 

 and without laying down any proportions to be adhered 

 to invariably, say that the whole ground to be operated 

 on amounts to seven acres : we may suppose that half 

 an acre is occupied by the site of the house, offices, and 

 their relative com'ts, that one acre is allotted to the 

 kitchen garden, and another acre and a half is distri- 

 buted among the la-^Tis, shrubberies, and approach, — 

 there would be left four acres for pasture to be grazed 

 by sheep, or by a few cows, or a horse or two, as the 

 wants of the family might require. In this way the whole 

 place might be arranged so as to be a miniature represen- 

 tation of a park and pleasure-grounds on a larger scale. 

 The grass field, then, thus promoted to the dignity of 

 a park, may be formed on one side or other of the house, 

 or may surround it on two or three sides, and should 

 constitute the principal lawns. It may be divided from 

 the dressed grounds by wire fences or iron hurdles, 

 which, from their lightness, are better adapted for the 

 internal fencing of smaU places than walls and hedges. 

 It may also have a few small groups of trees irregularly 

 scattered, but not dotted over it. The dressed grounds 

 should be attached to the house j but a curtain of trees 

 and shrubbery ^dll be needed to encircle the little park 

 so as to screen the boundary walls where these are too 

 conspicuous, to shelter the kitchen garden, and, in short, 

 to conceal anything that is objectionable. It may some- 

 times happen, however, that the extreme verge of the 

 field may seem to pass imperceptibly and harmoniously 

 into the adjacent property, and if there are no special 



