. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 1018 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. cidental circumstances. The principle of a sufficient reason ought never to be lost sight of in laying out walks and roads ; that is, no deviatiom from a straight line should ever appear, for which a reason is not gi
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 1018 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. cidental circumstances. The principle of a sufficient reason ought never to be lost sight of in laying out walks and roads ; that is, no deviatiom from a straight line should ever appear, for which a reason is not given in the position of the ground, trees, or other ac- companying objects. 7244. The finest description of hill or mountain walk is where the path is carried along the declivity on a perfect level, or where it winds round the hill by a gradual and regular ascent, here crossing a smooth slope and there forcing its way through rugged rocks, always preserving the same easy ascent or descent. When the views from such walks are grand and extensive, and especially if they include part of a river, a lake, or the sea seen through a proper foreground of trees, nothing of the kind can be more noble. 7245. Of valley walks, one on the wooded banks of a winding river, with cascades, or running over a rocky bed, the path sometimes accompanying the stream, at other times both retiring or separating from each other, till the sound of the water is scarcely heard through the wood, and then meeting again, accompanied by open glade or meadow, with the other variations of which such scenery is susceptible, may be reckoned among the finest of the kind. 7246. Fences are accompaniments common to both styles of landscape ; they are either permanent or temporary, and, in both cases, have been treated of in considering the subject of planting (6820.) and wood. (7203.)" 7247. Animated nature. Deer, wild and tame hares, cattle, sheep, game, singing birds, all belong to a residence, and are necessary
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