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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
of the house, and separated from six hundred acres, or 
more, of grazed park by the invisible wire fence. At 
Wilton House (Lord Pembroke), Appelder-Court, Good- 
wood (the Duke of Richmond’s), Blenheim, Chatsworth, 
Stowe, and many more of the best examples of English 
places that we remember, the amount of mown lawn 
consists really of little more than the grass borders of 
walks, or the strips which divided or surrounded planta- 
tions in the gardens and shrubberies. Three sides of 
the houses are thrown open, and kept short by deer and 
sheep. 
Although grazing is not as profitable in this country 
as in England, where the soft, mossy grass of the parks 
is usually verdant and green all summer, yet much 
more can be done than is. We know many a fine 
place where large expenditures have been made on 
houses and grounds, where the entire effect has been 
completely destroyed by the most mistaken economy 
of allowing the fields which surround the house, to grow 
up for hay, instead of being kept short by grazing as a 
park. 
In order to save a few hundred dollars of hay, the 
whole effect of hundreds of thousands of dollars in 
houses and grounds is completely lost. 
If people will persist in this mistaken thrift, why do 
they not at least plant their grazing or hay-fields in 
clumps and masses of trees, appropriately and naturally 
placed for park-like effects, and which would not materi- 
ally interfere with the plough or the harrow, when 
necessary to use them. 
By surrounding these plantations wdth invisible wire 
fences, which are quite lost against the foliage, they 
could at any time, when in grass, be converted into 
parks simply by the introduction of cattle and sheep. 
