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this, masses and groups, as well as single specimens of ornamental trees and 

 shrubs, should be disposed so as to show various expanses of lawn, and thus 

 deceive the eye as to the real extent of lawn from any given point. On one 

 front, where practicable, the park may, with propriety, be connected with the 

 terrace-wall, which will serve as a fence between the park and grounds. 



Gilpin and others support the old system of liigh walls and close chpped 

 hedges, especially in old places, as affording shelter and protection from the 

 obtrusive eye ; but in forming new places, at this day, I see no reason why 

 the improver should follow such examples, at the sacrifice of good taste 

 or true principles. Independently of this, however, shelter and retirement 

 may, in my opinion, be better and sooner produced by a shrubbery than 

 by a clipped hedge. The broad straight walk along the front of the 

 mansion will generally afford ample space for walking exercise, when the 

 weather is too unsettled for venturing out to a greater distance; and the 

 winter garden (a site for which is given in the palace plan, and delineated 

 on a larger scale, plate 4) will provide all that is requisite for comfort and 

 retirement, without the introduction of harsh lines of high walls and chpped 

 hedges into the landscape, which both offend the eye and mar the prospect, 

 when arranged after the ancient style. Gilpin seems, also, to advocate the 

 formal kitchen garden as a means of prolonging the necessary exercise, in 

 which he says, " A succession of various objects imparts a pleasing variety of 

 sensation to the mind." Now, to me,, it is surprising that Gilpin, a man of 

 otherwise great taste and practical experience, should have made such a 

 remark. The kitchen garden ought never to be considered a portion of the 

 pleasure ground, nor a place for recreation or exercise, although sanctioned 

 by antiquity. The constant presence of workpeople, so destructive of privacy, 

 is alone sufficient to prove my theory ; if not, the unpleasantness arising from 

 decaying vegetables, manure, &c, forbids it altogether, showing, at once, that 

 visits there ought to be few and optional, and that it is not intended to be a 

 place of general resort. 



The interest we feel in ancient places arises more from the fact of their 

 antiquity, and their celebrity for extraordinary events, than from the style in 

 which the grounds and gardens have been laid out : and it must be evident 

 that the stiff arrangements which are in the vicinity of the mansion, and 

 .specially those seen from the living rooms, can never inspire the mind with 



