Since then the geometrical style is chiefly adapted for an unenclosed or wild country, and for public parks or gardens, on what grounds, it may be asked, is it recommended for suburban residences? Our answer is, to accommodate the taste of particular individuals; to introduce as a contrast to suburban resi-dences in the modern style; and to suit newly peopled, and thinly inhabited countries, such as the back settlements of America or Australia. Besides these reasons, which refer to what may be called the relative beauty of the style, we contend, that it has some positive beauties, which are peculiarly its own, and on which account alone it deserves occasionally to be introduced. Among these are, the grandeur of its avenues, and the consistency with which this expression is maintained throughout a whole place; the masses of light and shade which are produced by these avenues; the succession and uniformity of the trees which compose them; the idea of distance given by their lengthened vistas; and the feeling of shelter and protection which intersecting avenues and rows of trees always produce.

To these beauties ought to be added those of the scenery in the immediate vicinity of the mansion, the terraces, the embroidered parterres, the fountains, the statues, and the comfort produced by the near vicinity of the kitchen-garden. Taking both the ancient and the modern styles, however, and examining them impartially, we readily allow that much more variety and interest can be created by the latter style than by the former; and, further, that the modern style is better adapted to modern circumstances, not only on account of the contrast which its lines and forms produce to the lines and forms of a country everywhere cultivated} but on account of its affording more ready means of displaying the numerous foreign trees and shrubs, which at the present day are become comparatively common in the gardens of temperate climates. We shall now describe the plan before us.