ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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Ground plans of ornamental plantations. To 
illustrate, partially, our ideas on the arrangement of planta- 
tions, we place before the reader two or three examples, 
premising, that the small scale to which they are reduced, 
prevents our giving to them any character beyond that of 
the general one of the design. The first, (fig. 20,) represents 
a portion, say one-third or one-half, of a piece of property 
selected for a country seat, and which has hitherto been 
kept in tillage, as ordinary farm land. The public road, a, 
is the boundary on one side : dd are prettily wooded dells or 
hollows, which, together with a few groups near the pro- 
posed site of the house, c, and a few scattered single trees, 
make up the aggregate of the original woody embellish- 
ments of the locality. 
In the next figure, (fig. 21,) a ground plan of the place is 
given, as it would appear, after having been judiciously laid 
out and planted, with several years growth. At a, the ap 
proach road leaves the public highway, and leads to the 
house at c : from whence, paths of smaller size, &, make the 
circuit of the ornamental portion of the residence, taking ad- 
vantage of the wooded dells, d , originally existing, which 
offer some scope for varied walks, concealed from each other 
by the intervening masses of thicket. It will be seen here, 
that one of the largest masses of wood forms a back ground 
to the house, concealing, also, the out-buildings ; while, from 
the windows of the mansion itself, the trees are so arranged 
as to group in the most pleasing and effective manner ; at 
the same time, broad masses of turf meet the eye, and fine dis- 
tant views are had through the vistas in the lines, e e. In 
this manner, the lawn appears divided into four distinct 
lawns or areas, bounded by groups of trees, instead of 
being dotted over with an unmeaning confusion of irregular 
