APPROPRIATION

In Landscape Gardening, is the ast of so blending the scenery of one estate with that of the others that adjoin it, as to make the one subservient to the other, in a scenic point of view. This is effected by appropriate fore-grounds, in the estate at command, to the distant views, in the estates not at command; or in fields immediately adjoining, by imitating in our own field what is contained in the field of our neighbour: thus, if the park of A. should be chiefly planted with pines and firs, and that of B. chiefly with oaks; A., in order to appropriate the scenery of B., must substitute oaks for a part of his pines and firs; more especially in the immediate vicinity of the grounds of B. [s. 82]