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Approaching the house from the park and coming to 

 the pleasure ground through plantations more or less 

 indeterminate in height and breadth, we reach a sort 

 of middle ground. This is the pleasure ground, and 

 after that comes the garden, as it were, a part of the 

 house. 



"The word pleasure ground is difficult to translate 

 accurately into German, and I therefore consider it 

 better to retain the English expression; it means a 

 terrain, abutting on the house territory and decorated 

 and fenced in, of far larger dimensions than gardens 

 usually are, something that establishes a gradation 

 between the park and the true garden, which should 

 appear to be really a part of the house, " ' 



Thomas Whately says in Observations on Modern 

 Gardening: 



"If regularity is not entitled to a preference in 

 the environs or approach to a house, it would be dif- 

 ficult to support its pretensions to a place in any 

 more distant parts of a park or a garden. Formal 

 ■slopes of ground are ugly, right or circular Hnes 

 bounding water do not indeed change the nature of 

 the element; it still retains some of its agreeable 

 properties; but the shape given to it is disgusting. 

 Regularity in plantations is less offensive; we are 

 habituated, as has been already observed, to straight 

 lines of trees, in cultivated nature; a double row 

 ' Prince Puckler, Hints, etc., on Landscape Gardening. 



