PICTURESQUE SCENERY. 



Picturesque Scenery is abrupt, rude, and undulating. In the formation, 

 therefore, of rides and drives, the artist must lay down a convenient as well 

 as interesting course, that its salient points of scenery may be most easily 

 observed, and produce the best effect. In walking from the dress grounds, 

 the same attention will be required, with the exception that variations of the 

 distant landscape may be made more readily accessible to the pedestrian, still 

 commanding, however, the same objects as those for which the saddle or 

 carriage visiter has further to travel. The aim of the designer must be to 

 pass over the most charming parts; sometimes winding naturally round a hill, 

 to gain the easiest access to its summit and obtain a prospect of the varied 

 scenery below ; sometimes taking an exploratory direction amongst rugged 

 projections and dark recesses, amid thickets of heaths, brambles, bilberries, 

 bluebells, anemones, primroses, and foxgloves, with the sturdy oak, ash, 

 drooping elm, or native maple overhead, awaiting admiration and applause. 

 If happily a brook or rivulet traverse the scene, the walk should, if possible, 

 be directed to a convenient point for fording the brook by stepping stones ; 

 and taking a devious course on the opposite side, it should then ascend and 

 descend abrupt and craggy steeps, leaving the spectator at leisure to contem- 

 plate and admire the natural beauties by which he is surrounded. At a 

 suitable point, a rustic bridge spanning the water might not only be useful, 

 but would add to the general interest. In secluded grounds of considerable 

 extent, a cottage or two might be veiy properly introduced, built of un tooled 

 stone, and covered with wild but luxuriant growths. Rude seats ought also 

 to be frequently met with, some open and some covered, so as to afford shelter 

 from storms and rain ; but all architectural display in these structures, and 

 formality in the grounds, should be strictly avoided. 



