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fitting • environment when it is seen from a 
distance, and the landscape a fitting fore- 
ground when it is seen from the house. The 
two questions then are, How to plant, and, 
What to plant. 
As regards the former, one cannot answer 
theoretically except by saying that there 
should, if possible, be a wide extent of lawn 
or lawns to give repose and unity to the 
picture, with surrounding plantations, varied 
in mass and sky-line, to enframe the lawns 
and connect them with the landscape ; that 
open outlooks should be left (but not too 
jenerously) for the contemplation of the 
oiost beautiful parts of the background ; that 
all disagreeable objects should be carefully 
masked from sight ; and that roads and 
walks should be as few and inconspicuous as 
convenience will allow. If a good land- 
scape-gardener is employed these arrange- 
ments will be planned and their preliminary 
portions will be executed without much trou- 
ble to the owner. But in settling the ques- 
tion what to plant in completing them, the 
landscape-gardener, in America as in Eng- 
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