chap, ix. - ] PLEASURE GROUNDS. 315 
more taste. Indeed, in laying out pleasure- 
grounds, however small they may be, it is 
generally the best, and indeed the most 
economical way, to have the advice of a pro¬ 
fessional landscape gardener at first; instead 
of groping on in the dark, from a mistaken 
idea of economy, till at last it is discovered 
that all is wrong, and must be done over 
again. Thus in the end, the work is gene¬ 
rally found to have cost twice as much as 
would have been expended if it had been 
begun properly at first; besides the loss of 
time, and the annoyance always occasioned 
by having anything to undo. 
The Trees and Shrubs .—In all places suf¬ 
ficiently small to be managed by a lady, 
without the aid of a regular gardener, the 
trees and shrubs should be of the choicest 
kinds. It is quite the fashion of the present 
day to plant arb ore turns ; and though a place 
of the kind I mention would not admit of a 
complete one, a lady might take some genus, 
or some small natural order to illustrate, (as 
for example the genus Ribes, or the order 
Berberidese,) and fill up the rest of her 
grounds with hollies or other evergreens, so 
