. An encyclopædia of gardening; . stantbeauties suggest, and the cha-racter of the mansion disposing these masses,whether on a flat or irregu-lar surface, regard mil be hadto leave uncovered such aquantity of lawn or turf asshall, at all events, admit afree circulation of air, givebreadth of light, and displaythe form of the large massesof wood. Uniformity andvariety as a whole, and useas well as beauty in the parts,must be kept constantly inview. Avenues, alleys, andvistas, should serve as muchas possible as roads, walks,lines of fences, or screens ofshelter or shade ; but whereth
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . stantbeauties suggest, and the cha-racter of the mansion disposing these masses,whether on a flat or irregu-lar surface, regard mil be hadto leave uncovered such aquantity of lawn or turf asshall, at all events, admit afree circulation of air, givebreadth of light, and displaythe form of the large massesof wood. Uniformity andvariety as a whole, and useas well as beauty in the parts,must be kept constantly inview. Avenues, alleys, andvistas, should serve as muchas possible as roads, walks,lines of fences, or screens ofshelter or shade ; but wherethis is not the case, they shouldpoint to some distant beauties,or near artificial objects, to beseen at or beyond their termi-nation. The outer extremitiesof artificial plantations mayeither join natural woods,other artificial scenes, culti-vated lands, or barren heathsor commons. 7206. TF/i£n artificial plant-ations join natural uoods, theavenues, alleys, and circularglades of the former may be con-tinued a certain length in the. latter, so that the point where the natural wood begins, and the artificial plantation ends,may not be discoverable. In aid of this effect, the sort of tree which prevails in the naturalscenes, should also prevail in the adjoining parts of the artificial wood. SMien ai-tificialscenes join other artificial scenes, nothing can be easier than by the reciprocal continuationof avenues, strips, or masses, so far to unite the two seats, as to conceal the boundaries ofeach, wliile the two mansions will thus each borrow a splendor from the other. Thereare still existing proofs of the attention paid to this subject in former times, an instanceof which occurs in the apparent connection by avenues between Blenheim, Ditchley,and Heythrop, though the last mansion is nearly ten miles distant from the first. 7207. jyiien artificial sceries join cultivated lands, if those lands are enclosed, broadstrips, hedge-rows, square or round clumps in the angles of the fields,
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