240. The most important point of difference between a suburban and a country villo, is undoubtedly the circumstance of the latter never forming part of a street or road: but there are several other distinctive marks of difference. In giving designs for suburban gardens, we have supposed, in almost every case, that the surface is flat, and the space limited; and, consequently, that the beauties to be produced must necessarily be included within the enclosure. In some cases, indeed, we have suggested that adjoining trees, and other objects might be admitted to view; and, in others, that unsightly objects might be excluded by trees; but, as there is in general, very little scope for exercising this kind of art in laying out street gardens, we have hitherto not said much on the subject. In the gardens of which we are now about to treat, however, and especially such as have an uneven surface, the exterior landscape necessarily forms a constant object of attention, in laying out the surface of the area within the boundary.

Without a nice attention to the adjoiniug grounds, and the manner in which they are planted, built on, or laid out; and adapting the foregrounds and middle distances to them, as the case may require; the effect produced will not be entitled to be considered as landscape, in the artistical sense of that word.