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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
this garden. Or in other cases the garden is surroundod 
by a thicket of shrubs and low trees, partly concealing it 
from the eye on all sides but one. 
It is evident that the architectural flower-garden is 
superior to the general flower-garden, as an appendage 
to the house , on two accounts. First, because, as we 
have already shown, it serves an admirable purpose 
in effecting a harmonious union between the house and the 
grounds. And secondly, because we have both the rich 
verdure and gay blossoms of the flowering plants, and the 
more permanent beauty of sculptured forms ; the latter 
heightening the effect of the former by contrast, as well as 
by the relief they afford the eye in masses of light, amid 
surrounding verdure. 
There are several varieties of general flower-gardens, 
which may be formed near the house. Among these we 
will only notice the irregular flower-garden, the old French 
flower-garden, and the modern or English flower-garden. 
In almost all the different kinds of flower-gardens, two 
methods of forming the beds are observed. One is, to cut 
the beds out of the green turf, which is ever afterwards 
