A.

AMPHITHEATRE, a glade, or grass-plat in the form of a semicircle, surrounded or belted in a concave line by shrubs, or by a high mound.

ANCIENT STYLE, consists of avenues forming the approach to an old mansion, where the lawn is level, or regularly sloped from the house, common to abbeys. ARBOUR, a sylvan bower, a recess in a plantation. ARBORETUM, a place in a park for foreign plants.

AVENUE, a carriage-road formed by an equidistant row of ornamental trees on each side.

AVENUE DOUBLE, carriage and foot roads formed by an equidistant double row of trees on each side the road. AVENUES INTERSECTING, those sometimes form the Greek cross, at others the martyr's cross, the star cross, and patee de oye or duck's foot.

B.

BEAUTIFUL SCENERY consists of uniformity, variety, form, and colours in the ornamental trees surrounding a country mansion: all commixed objects which possess a degree of elegance in their construction, partake of that quality denominated beautiful. A decorated lawn or flower-garden, neatly trimmed and preserved in order, presents the constituents of beauty.

BELT, a semicircular, or other formed plantation of thick trees and evergreen-shrubs for inclosing or circumscribing the lawn around a country-house.

BOWER, an arbour for a summer-seat, a recess arched overhead with woodbine or other climbing plants.

C.

CLASSIC SCENERY belongs to classical villas, and consists of high decoration of statues and vases placed among the park trees, and in the shrubberies. "This is called classical, as the ideas which such scenery excites associate themselves with those which the mind has previously received from the writings called classic."

CLUMP, trees planted in a round or oval form, compact together.

COMPOUND PLANTATION, a plantation formed of trees of different kinds, growths, character, verdure, and colour; as fir, oak, birch, elm, holly, ash, and laurel. COPSE, a small thicket of brush-wood.

P.

PANOPTICAN, triangular plantations radiating from the house, and separated by glades, having views open to the surrounding country.

PARK, an inclosed ground near the mansion for keeping deer. PARTERRE, any form of figure in a flower-garden, inclosed within a border of box or other verdure. PICTURESQUE SCENERY, the picturesque is opposed to regularity; it is essential also that it be diversified, and rugged in appearance; old and half-decayed trees, the rough and broken precipice, the sinuous and irregular banks of a river, display the picturesque.

of trees. PLATOON PLANTATION, a compact square PLEASURE-GROUND, a shrubbery with choice plants, walks, and summer-seats. A place for rural retirement. PROMONTORY, a headland.

Q.

QUINCUX, a ziz-zag plantation.

R.

RADIATING PLANTATIONS, those where trees converge towards the mansion or to a summer-seat. ROCK-WORK, an ornamental pile of loose stones reared in the middle of a fish-pond or sheet of water, interspersed with grass, moss, and flowering Alpine shrubs.

ROMANTIC SCENERY, is that kind in which every object is wild, abrupt, and fantastic, in which endless intricacies discover at every turn something new and unexpected; so that we are at once amused and surprised, and curiosity is constantly gratified but never satiated, not only because it is similar to that usually described in romances, but because it affords the same kind of pleasure as we feel from the incidents usually related in such works.

ROOKERY, a grove near a country-seat where rooks build. ROUND-HEAD PLANTATION, composed of trees, with round heads, as oaks, elms, and chesnuts.

ROSARY, a figured place where roses are planted. RUSTIC SCENERY, consists of disjointed rock, a few aged trees, with a rivulet of water meandering between the stones, and circumscribed in extent.

S.

SCREEN, evergreen-trees planted in a position to protect a mansion from the northern winds.

SHRUBBERY, a rural plantation for morning exercise, retirement, or contemplation.

SPIRY-TOPPED PLANTATION, formed of trees with springtops, as firs, poplars, and cypresses.

STAR CROSS, paths in a garden intersecting, or coming in conjunction so as to form a star.

STRIPS, long slips of plantations.

T.

THICKET, where there are many trees growing together, and surrounded with thick underwood.

TOPARY-WORK, yew trees cut into birds and animals. TURF COTTAGE GARDEN, a garden partly turf, and partly earth beds for flowers and shrubs.

V.

VERDANT SCULPTURE, evergreens cut into sculptured figures.

VISTA, an opening through a wood, or a plantation of trees.

W.

WILDERNESS, a confused plantation, where all vegetation grows wild.

WOOD, a large natural assemblage of trees.