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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
There are many practical difficulties, which every 
one must find, who essays to make such country or sub- 
urban residences. If the selection of a site is to be 
made, the proximity of nuisances, or the danger that 
an advancing population from the neighboring city will 
soon supply them, renders the task one of much per- 
plexity. The limits of your place, plant as you may, 
can not always be concealed, without shutting out the 
distant prospect ; and all breadth of effect, and grace 
of outline, is destroyed by the effort to secure yourself 
from present or anticipated annoyances. High boundary 
fences, and a separate gate-lodge for each place, seem 
necessary for protection from marauders — while the 
idea of even a respectable drive over your own ground, 
secure from the disagreeable objects of the public high- 
way, is rarely entertained. These difficulties, and many 
others, the enthusiastic lover of a country life will 
bravely meet, and patiently endure, when they are 
insurmountable ; but the attempt to overcome them 
has been made with apparent success, by the project 
before mentioned, of a semi-public, or, as it is, we 
believe, called a Neighborhood Park. The general 
plan on which such an enterprise can be based, may 
perhaps, be best elucidated by the history and des- 
cription of Llwellyn Park * at Orange, Hew Jersey, in 
illustration of which, the engraving on steel (Plate VI.), 
presents a view of the entrance. A Plan of the same 
is also given in Fig. 105, and the upper and north- 
western part of the Park is shown in Fig. 106, the 
figures being further explained by the Table of Re- 
ferences, page 573. 
The site selected for this Park is on the eastern slope 
of the Orange mountain, which here forms an inclined 
* The origin and execution of this valuable scheme, is attributable to 
Mr. L. S. Haskell, a merchant of New York, who has enthusiastically devoted 
the past three years to the development of this, his favorite idea. 
