38 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



On the other hand, it is a mistake to erect 

 buildings intended for peaceable dwellings in the 

 style of a castle or stronghold. The most costly 

 examples of this kind in England are Eatonhall 

 and Ashridge, where millions have been spent 

 in creating a child's toy, immense fortresses set 

 in flower gardens, whose innumerable turrets and 

 battlements looking down upon the hothouses 

 filled with exotic plants seem ludicrous, and whose 

 owners, in the words of a waggish traveler, should 

 walk about their pleasure-grounds like Don 

 Quixote, with shield and armor, to be in har- 

 mony with their buildings. A dallying with 

 things Gothic is as silly as a man in second child- 

 hood. '^•^'' 



