REITO^'S LANDSCAPE GAEDENINa AND AECHITECTURE. 



EEPTON'S LANDSCAPE GARDENING AND ARCHITECTURE. 



One of the latest labors of tlie lamented Loudon, was to collect anJ edit, in one 

 volume, tlie works of Repton. This was one of the first of five volumes which he 

 intended to be a complete Encyclopedia of Landscape Gardening ; another was to 

 embrace Italian, French, and Dutch schools, which represent the Geometric style; 

 another was to treat of the "Modern, or Landscape style," as introduced by Kent, 

 and illustrated in the writings of Shenstone, Whateley, and Mason ; another the 

 Picturesque school, as represented in the writings of Gilpin and Price; and the fir(h 

 the " Gardenesque," which was Loudon's own style, or so named by him. Loudon 

 regarded Repton's school "as combining all that was excellent in former schools, and 

 in fact as consisting of the union of an artistical knowledge of the subject with good 

 taste and good sense." Repton labored in the same direction as did Downing, to 

 unite and harmonize country houses with the surrounding scenery. His works are 

 filled with instruction, and should be carefully studied by all who wish to acquire 

 information or cultivate their taste on these subjects. We copy the following chapter, 

 with its illustrations, giving some account of English cottage residences three hundred 

 years ago. Some of the most elegant cottages erected in this country, within the 

 past ten or twelve years, are in this old English style, though variously modified, 

 according to tastes and circumstances, and to adapt it to the present state of society. 



"On Dates of Buildings. — A cottage, or keeper's house, w^as deemed necessary at 

 Apsley Wood, about tlirce miles from "Woburn Abbey. The Duke of Bedford (to wliom I 

 am indebted for numerous opportunities of displaying his good taste) one day observed, 



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Fig. 1. EXGLISII COTTAGE BUILT OF TIMBER. 



Prevalent from the reign of Henry VI to Henry VI 11, and erected by the Duke of Bedford, at Apsley Wood, nc>ar 



Woburn Abbey, in ISIO and ISU. 



that out of the numerous cottages called Gothic, which everjnvhere presented themselves 

 near the liigh roads, he liad never seen one wliicli did not betray its modern character and 

 recent date. At the same time, his Grace expressed a desire to have a cottage of the style 

 and date of buildings prior to the reign of Uenry VIII., of which only some imperfect frag- 



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