CHAPTER XI. 
AERANGEMENT IN PLANTING. 
^ I HOUGH set rules, in matters of art, are sometimes 
I “ more honored in the breach than in the observance,” 
it is also true that every art has certain general prin- 
ciples, the observance of which will rarely lead to great 
faults, while their violations may. We therefore hope that the 
following suggestions or rules, drawn to meet the requirements of 
small suburban grounds, will be of some use, and serve as a 
starting-point for that higher culture which educates the intuitive 
perceptions of the artist to dispense with rules, or rather, perhaps, 
to work intuitively by 7'ule^ as an aesthetic instinct. 
I. Preserve in one or 7?iore places (according to the size and form 
of the lot) the greatest length of imbroken lawii that the space will 
admit of. 
II. Plant between radiatmg lines from the house to the outside of 
the lot., so as to leave open lines of view frorn the principal windows 
and entrance porches ; also find where., without injuring the views to 
and fro7ii the house., the best vistas inay be left fro77i the street into the 
lot, and fro77i 07ie pomt to another across the grou7ids, or to pohits of 
mterest beyofid. 
