4 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



reaches up and down the stream, though 

 both are beautiful, are altogether lost to the 

 windows. 



There is an universal and well founded pre- 

 ference of a south aspect for the living rooms 

 of a house : but if, by yielding a few points of 

 the compass on either side, I could improve 

 the composition, I confess I should not hesi- 

 tate so to do. When the house is of an irre- 

 gular form, windows may be so placed as to 

 command a greater variety of scenery than can 

 be obtained by the usual rectangular build- 

 ing. I remember seeing a house built by the 

 late Colonel JMitford, near the New Forest, in 

 a triangular form, to meet three distinct and 

 very different views. The situation of a house 



will, in a great degree, be determined by its 

 character; which character will, again, be 



mainly influenced by that of the surrounding 

 scenery, particularly of its immediate domain. 

 Country residences, such as we are treating 

 of, may be classed under the following deno- 

 minations : a Castle ; a Grecian or Italian 

 Edifice ; a JNIanorial Building ; a Hunting 

 Lodge; and a Cottage ornee.* The distinction 



* A freneral name for that sort of building that claims 

 no place among the former. 



