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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
[Fig. 16. View of a Country Residence, as frequently seen.] 
not less meagre than the stiff approach leading to it, border- 
ed with a formal belt of trees. The succeeding sketch, 
(fig. 17), exhibits this place as improved agreeably to the 
principles of modern Landscape Gardening, not only in the 
plantations, but in the house, — which appears tastefully alter- 
ed from a plain unmeaning parallelogram, to a simple, old 
English^cottage, — and in the more graceful approach. Effects 
like these, are within the reach of very moderate means, and 
are peculiarly worth attention in this country, where so much 
has already been partially, and often badly executed. 
[Fig. 17. View of the same Residence, improved.] 
Where there are large masses of wood to regulate and ar- 
range, much skill, taste and judgment, are requisite, to enable 
the proprietors to preserve only what is really beautiful and 
