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a man writhe as at false notes in music, and all 

 because due regard has not been paid to this parti- 

 cular. By exercise of forethought in this matter, 

 the house and o-arden would have been linked to 

 the site, and the site to the landscape ; as it is. you 

 wish the house at Jericho I * 



As the point of access to a house from the 

 public road and the route to be taken afterwards 

 not infrequently determines the position of the 

 house upon the site, it may be well to speak of the 

 Approach first. In planning the ground, care will 

 be taken that the approach shall both look well of 

 itsell and afford convenient access to the house and 

 its appurtenances, not forgetting the importance of 

 giving to the visitor a pleasing impression of the 

 house as he drives up. 



^ Not 50 thinks the author of " The English Flower Garden " ; — 

 *' Imagine the effect of a well-built and fine old house, seen from the 

 extremity- of a wide lawn, with plenty- of trees and shrubs on its outer 

 parts, and nothing to impede the view of the house or its windows but 

 a refreshing carpet of grass. If owners of parks were to consider this 

 point fuUy, and, as they travel about, watch the effect of such lawns as 

 remain to us, and compare them with what has been done by certain 

 landscape-gardeners, there would shortly be, at many a countr\-seat, 

 a rapid carting away of the terrace and aU its adjuncts." Marn", this 

 is sweeping ! But Repton has some equally strong words condemning 

 the very- plan our Author recommends : " In the execution of my pro- 

 fession I have often experienced great difficulty and opposition in 

 attempting to correct the false and mistaken taste for placing a large 

 house in a naked grass field, without any apparent line of separation 

 between the ground exposed to cattle and the ground annexed to the 

 house, which I consider as peculiarly under the management of art. 



" This line of separation being admitted, advantage may be easily 

 taken to ornament the lawn with flowers and shrubs, and to attach to 

 the mansion that scene of ' embellished neatness ' usually called a 

 pleasure-ground'"' (Repton, p. 213. See also No. 2 of Repton's 

 " Objections/" given on p. 116). ^ 



