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The Art of Landscape Gardening 



3d. If the gates are of iron, the posts or piers ought 

 to be conspicuous, because an iron gate hanging to an 

 iron pier of the same colour is almost invisible; and the 

 principal entrance to a park should be so marked that 

 no one may mistake it. 



4th. If the entrance-gate be wood, it should, for the 

 same reason, be painted white, and its form should rather 

 tend to shew its construction than aim at fanciful orna- 

 ment of Chinese, or Gothic, for reasons to be explained 

 in speaking of decorations. 



Fig. 22. Stoke Park, Herefordshire. 



It is not sufficient that a building should be in just 

 proportions with itself; it should bear some relative pro- 

 portion to the objects near it. The example given 

 [Fig. 22] is the Doric portico at Stoke Park, in Here- 

 fordshire, where the size of the building was regulated 

 by a large oak and a young plantation near it : had this 

 building been more lofty, it would have overpowered 

 the young trees by which it is surrounded, and a smaller 



