other indigenous bushes; a fountain gushing from some cleft into a little 

 basin of moss-grown stones, and the wild rose and the woodbine intertwined, 

 as we see it everywhere on the broken banks and craggy hills of Wharfdale, 

 and in most mountainous or hilly districts. The Elizabethan style is best 

 suited to scenery of this description, with its numerous gables, and projec- 

 tions, terraces, vases and urns, and other similar decorations. 



Beautiful Scenery is that which is quiet and retiring, where everything is 

 soft and blending, and where there are no sudden contrasts, but composed of 

 bold and gentle undulations, and adorned with handsome and stately trees, 

 with now and then a peep at some gentle water or glassy lake.* The 

 Grecian or Italian style is most in harmony with such scenery as this. 



Rural Scenery is, of all, the simplest and most common. It is that 

 where there is generally abundance of hedge-row timber, and hedge after 

 hedge in constant succession; where there is the busy farm, dotted and 

 animated with sheep, and cattle wading through the muddy pools or cool 

 shallow streams. Here should be placed a modest unassuming house, or cot- 

 tage orn'e, either of which would be well adapted to it. Or, if the domain be 

 large, (demanding a family residence), a manorial edifice might be suitable. 

 Scenery of this kind prevails most generally on the Great Northern Line, 

 from the junction at Knottingley, near Ferrybridge, to within a few miles of 

 London. 



Whatever the style of the house may be, the stables should always be in 

 character, and be placed at a convenient distance from it : near enough to 

 associate with the house, and appear to belong to it, but never so prominent 

 nor on so extensive a scale as to be mistaken for the mansion itself ; nor yet 

 so completely concealed or planted out as either not to appear at all, or to 

 seem but a very insignificant appendage. The various offices should always 

 be above ground, and correspond with the style of the mansion, whatever it 

 may be, and placed in close connection with it. Buildings of this description 

 should be arranged in broken lines, and be of different elevations, and 

 attached to the main building by ornamental walls of different heights: they 

 thus not only produce variety, extent, and importance, but being broken and 



• The scenery about Harewood House, in Wharfdale. and farther up the vale towards Bolton Abbey, as 

 well as that viewed from the Great Northern Railway a few miles north of London, and the vale of Richmond, 

 near London, are good examples of the beautiful. 



