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it should be simple and symmetrical in its character, and 
its veranda festooned with masses of the finest climbers. 
The Picturesque in Landscape Gardening (Fig. 14) 
aims at the production of outlines of a certain spirited 
irregularity, surfaces comparatively abrupt and broken, 
and growth of a somewhat wild and bold character. The 
shape of the ground sought after, has its occasional 
smoothness varied by sudden variations, and in parts runs 
into dingles, rocky groups, and broken banks. The trees 
should in many places be old and irregular, with rough 
stems and bark ; and pines, larches, and other trees of 
striking, irregular growth, must appear in numbers sufficient 
to give character to the woody outlines. As, to produce 
the Beautiful, the trees are planted singly in open groups 
to allow full expansion, so for the Picturesque, the grouping 
takes every variety of form ; almost every object should 
group with another ; trees and shrubs are often planted 
closely together ; and intricacy and variety — thickets — * 
glades — and underwood — as in wild nature, are indispensa- 
ble. Walks and roads are more abrupt in their windings, 
turning off frequently at sudden angles where the form of 
the ground or some inviting object directs. In water, all 
the wildness of romantic spots in nature is to be imitated 
or preserved ; and the lake or stream with bold shore and 
rocky, wood-fringed margin, or the cascade in the secluded 
dell, are the characteristic forms. The keeping of such a 
landscape will of course be less careful than in the 
graceful school. Firm gravel walks near the house, and 
a general air of neatness in that quarter, are indispensable 
to the fitness of the scene in all modes, and indeed properly 
evince the recognition of art in all Landscape Gardening. 
But the lawn may be less frequently mown, the edges of 
