GENERAL REMARKS. 
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with a well-ordered country place. The trees should he 
so arranged, that while forming natural and graceful 
groups, they should act as it were as frames, through 
which the distant views or objects of interest on or 
beyond the place, seem to appear to the greatest 
advantage. We do not certainly wish to interdict ail 
flowers, or banish them from the vicinity of the house ; 
far from it. We think, on the contrary, a bed or so of 
roses, or a mass of the sweet-scented honeysuckle and 
fragrant clematis immediately under the windows of the 
drawing room, are most desirable, that w^e may enjoy 
their fragrance of a summer evening. We would only 
so arrange or place them, that they should in no way 
disturb the view by withdrawing the eye from some- 
thing much finer beyond. 
Nothing can well be prettier or in better taste than 
an architectural flower garden, opening from the break- 
fast or morning room, or perhaps on a side of the house, 
where the view is confined and shut in by ornamental 
shrubs, and winch seems, by a judicious transition, to 
connect the house and the grounds ; but w T e think on 
those sides where the views are, and especially on the 
entrance front, there should be nothing but the simplest 
and most dignified arrangements of trees and grass. 
There is another, and we think a very sensible reason, 
why flowers and flowering shrubs should not be intro- 
duced, in profusion at least, either along the borders 
of the approach road, or in the immediate vicinity of 
the entrance front. 
It is well laid dowm by the English Landscape Gar- 
deners, that from the time the house is first seen on an 
approach, it should not be lost sight of. It being the 
highest architectural object on the place, no rural 
objects, like flowers, or any architectural features of 
lower art, like statues, or vases, should be permit- 
ted to divert the eye of the visitor, which they would 
be very apt to do, if from no other reason than the care 
