COMPOSITION OF THE LANDSCAPE. ^5 



ground set apart for domestic use. TTe Lave remarked 

 more fully upon this in our previous notes on the posi- 

 tion of the house in the park. With such exception, 

 we quite concur in the views so properly expressed in 

 the text. — Ed. 



Composition of the Landscape. — The views which 

 it is desirable should be possessed from the house re- 

 quire a varied arrangement of the dressed groimds. 

 As formerly stated, those on the drawing-room front 

 should, if possible, be the finest. Sometimes they may 

 all be included in one prospect, the pleasure-grounds 

 forming the foreground of the picture, and the park 

 and exterior country making up the middle-ground 

 and the distance respectively. In certain cases, the 

 whole scene is necessarily confined to the pleasure- 

 grounds and park, and in others entirely to the pleasure- 

 grounds ; but whatever be the extent of view, on the 

 proper arrangement, and on the blending of the dif- 

 ferent parts- of the scene, will depend the success of 

 the landscape-gardener in the operations committed to 

 him. It is evident that, with such diversified materials 

 and appliances, a diversity of treatment will be neces- 

 sary. When the middle-ground and the extreme dis- 

 tance of extensive views are of a varied and interesting 

 character, it is seldom expedient to introduce much 

 ornament into the foreground; but if the middle-ffround 

 is tame and the distance uninviting, tlie interior should 

 be made as ornamental as possible ; and the same effect 

 should be aimed at when the middle distance is dis- 

 figured by disagreeable objects which cannot be wholly 

 excluded or concealed. When the whole scene is 

 within the park, and still more when it is wholly within 

 the pleasure-grounds, it must receive the more careful 



