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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
command admiration. All that it would be requisite for him 
to do in such a case, would be to employ rare and foreign orna- 
mental trees ; as for example, r the horse-chestnut and the 
linden, in situations where the maple and the sycamore are 
the principal trees, — elegant flowering shrubs and beautiful 
creepers, instead of sumacs and hazels, — and to have his 
place kept in high and polished order, instead of the tangled 
wildness of general nature. 
On the contrary, were a person to desire a residence newly 
laid out and planted, in a district where all around is in a high 
state of polished cultivation, as in the suburbs of a city, a spe- 
cies of pleasure would result from the imitation of scenery of a 
more spirited natural character, — as the picturesque, — in his 
grounds. His plantations are made in irregular groups, 
composed chiefly of picturesque trees, as the larch, the 
oak, etc. — his walks would lead through varied scenes, 
sometimes bordered with groups of rocks overrun with 
flowering creepers and vines ; sometimes with thickets or 
little copses of shrubs and flowering plants ; sometimes 
through wild and, comparatively, neglected portions ; the 
whole interspersed with open glades of turf. 
In the majority of instances in the United States, the mo- 
dem style of Landscape Gardening, wherever it is appreci- 
ated, will, in practice, consist in arranging a demesne of from 
five to some hundred acres, — or rather that portion of it, 
say one half, one third, etc., devoted to lawn and pleasure- 
ground, pasture, etc., — so as to exhibit groups of forest and 
ornamental trees and shrubs, surrounding the dwelling of the 
proprietor, and extending for a greater or less distance, 
especially towards the place of entrance from the public 
highway. Near the house, good taste will dictate the 
assemblage of groups and masses of the rarer or more beau- 
