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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
some portions, and throwing others into stronger light, con- 
tribute greatly to produce intricacy and variety, and con- 
fer an expression, which, without these latter qualities, might 
in a great measure be wanting. By shutting out some parts, 
and enclosing others, they divide the extent embraced by the 
eye, into a hundred different landscapes, instead of one tame 
scene bounded by the horizon. 
The different seasons of the year, too, are inseparably con- 
nected in our minds with the effects produced by them on 
woodland scenery. Spring is joyous and enlivening to us, 
as nature then puts on her fresh livery of green and the trees 
bud and blossom with a renewed beauty, that speaks with a 
mute and gentle eloquence to the heart. In summer they 
ffer us a grateful shelter under their umbrageous arms and 
leafy branches, and whisper unwritten music to the passing 
breeze : in autumn we feel a melancholy thoughtfulness as 
“We stand among the fallen leaves,” 
and gaze upon their dying glories. And in winter we see 
in them the silent rest of nature, and behold in their leaf- 
less spray, and seemingly dead limbs, an annual type of that 
deeper mystery — the deathless sleep of all being. 
By the judicious employment of trees in the embellishment 
of a country residence, we may effect the greatest alterations 
and improvements within the scope of Landscape Gardening. 
Buildings which are tame, insipid, or even mean in appear- 
ance, may be made interesting, and often picturesque, by a 
proper disposition of trees. Edifices, or parts of them that are 
unsightly, or which it is desirable partly or wholly to con- 
ceal, can readily be hidden or improved by wood ; and walks 
and roads, which otherwise would be but simple ways of ap- 
proach from one point to another, are, by an elegant arrange- 
