Avenues ceased.-I perfectly remember, when I was about ten years old, that my father (a man of such general observation, that no innovation or novelty escaped him) remarked to me the change which was then taking place in ornamental planting; and then, although little supposing how much it would become the future study of my life, I recollect his observing the discovery made by some ingenious planter (perhaps Kent or Brown), that the straight line might be preserved in appearance from the ends of a vista, or avenue, without actually filling up all the sides; and thus alternate openings of views to the country might be obtained, without losing the grandeur of the straight line, which was then deemed indispensable. He also observed, that, perhaps, this would lead to the abolishing of avenues; and I believe few were planted after that date, viz., the middle of the last century.
