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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The most natural method of forming a winding Approach 
where the ground is gently undulating, is to follow, in some 
degree, the depressions of surface, and to curve round the 
eminences. This is an excellent method, so long as it does 
not lead us in too circuitous a direction, nor, as we before 
hinted, make the road itself too uneven. When either of 
these happens, the easy, gradual flow of the curve in the 
proper direction, must be maintained by levelling or 
grading, to produce the proper surface. 
Nothing can be more unmeaning than to see an Ap- 
proach, or any description of road, winding hither and 
thither, through an extensive level lawn, towards the 
house, without the least apparent reason for the curves. 
Happily, we are not, therefore, obliged to return to the 
straight line; but gradual curves may always be so ar- 
ranged as to appear necessarily to wind round the groups of 
trees , which otherwise would stand in the way. Wherevei 
a bend in the road is intended, a cluster or group of 
greater or less size and breadth, proportionate to the 
curve, should be placed in the projection formed. These 
trees, as soon as they attain some size, if they are properly 
arranged, we may suppose to have originally stood there, 
and the road naturally to have curved, to avoid destroying 
them. 
This arrangement of trees bordering an extended 
Approach road, in connexion with the various other 
groups, masses, and single trees, in the adjacent lawn, will 
in most cases have the effect of concealing the house from 
the spectator approaching it, except, perhaps, from one or 
two points. It has, therefore, been considered a matter 
worthy of consideration, at what point or points the first 
