. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . •-=^=5^ ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER Fig. 33—Honey of one man would fully answer the purpose.* Grounds of a stillcheaper character might again be sufficiently attended to, if allowed to partake more of the wildness ofthe pictuiesque, presenting a moreuneven surface, denser and morevaried planting, giving little arti-ficial symmetry to any of the trees,festooning them in some of thewilder parts with climbers, andallowing some underbrush to growbeneath them. The smaller portionof grass lying
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . •-=^=5^ ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER Fig. 33—Honey of one man would fully answer the purpose.* Grounds of a stillcheaper character might again be sufficiently attended to, if allowed to partake more of the wildness ofthe pictuiesque, presenting a moreuneven surface, denser and morevaried planting, giving little arti-ficial symmetry to any of the trees,festooning them in some of thewilder parts with climbers, andallowing some underbrush to growbeneath them. The smaller portionof grass lying between them wouldgrow less rapidly than when whollyexposed, and need less frequent. Fig. 34—Weeping Ash, * An acquaintance residing at one ofour smaller cities, succeeded in kct^pingone of the neatest lialf acres of gardenwe ever met with, (which was a perfectvelvet <if tnrf, with walks, and a fewbroad flower-beds,) with tlie labors ofone gardener only, a day and a-half eachweek. OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 255 mowing. The gravel walks, however, which traverse these grounds,should be kept studiously neat, or the whole will have a neglected anddecayed appearance. It would be a great error to suppose that such apiece of ground as this may be designed without careful study; nothingcould afford a better oi)portuuity for testing the combined abilities of alandscape painters eye, and of the ornamental gardeners skill, in pro-ducing the pleasing diversity, the skj outline, the blending of light andshadow, and the changing combination of objects as seen from everyadvancing step of the spectator. Most of the designs we have given of the grounds about dwellings, indi-cate a conside
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