Practical landscape gardening : with reference to the improvement of rural residences, giving the general principles of the art : with full directions for planting shade trees, shrubbery and flowers, and laying out grounds . stic seatsand benches may invite to rest and repose, thanin all the fanciful gimcracks, and loretty things,that some gardeners have in common with theconfectioner, and which are assuredly more in placewhen decorating a cake, than when embellishing apleasure-ground. The Pleasure-Ground should possess, if possible,charms for all seasons of the year. The flowers,shrubs and tr
Practical landscape gardening : with reference to the improvement of rural residences, giving the general principles of the art : with full directions for planting shade trees, shrubbery and flowers, and laying out grounds . stic seatsand benches may invite to rest and repose, thanin all the fanciful gimcracks, and loretty things,that some gardeners have in common with theconfectioner, and which are assuredly more in placewhen decorating a cake, than when embellishing apleasure-ground. The Pleasure-Ground should possess, if possible,charms for all seasons of the year. The flowers,shrubs and trees which bloom and bud earliest inSpring, should be placed nearest the house, in orderto extend to its inhabitants as early as possible,the cheering influences of Spring. The finestmasses of flowers and shrubbery should always beplaced where they may show to best advantagefrom the windows. To enliven the scenery in win-ter. Evergreens should be provided; these also addmuch to the beauty and comfort of the place insummer. They should not, however, surround thehouse at regular distances, like sentinels. Groupedin natural forms, at the sides of the house, theywill create a fine effect; and when the dwelling h9OQ d HQ O. THE PLEASURE-GROUND. 193 Wliere this is clone, sufficient room must be allowedfor outside views, wliile unsightly objects are, asmuch as possible, concealed; thus, the mud ofthe street may be hid from sight by plantationsof Eoses, Jasmines, etc., as these would not con-ceal from us the movements of passing objects. The Kitchen-garden and Orchard should be sur-rounded by Plantation; and all buildings belongingto these departments, as the fruit and dry houses,in the orchard, and the hotbeds, pits and green-houses, in the Kitchen-garden, should be placednear them. The Kitchen-garden should be, if pos-sible, near the stables, for convenience in obtainingmanure. Greenhouses, where built in a tastefulstyle of architecture, and thus assuming the char-acter of conservator
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