NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS 



bringing them to the wonderful condition in which they are to-day. 

 Their massiveness is thoroughly in keeping with the severity 

 of the castle architecture — here is another instance of the preser- 

 vation of the proper connection between a building and its garden 

 surrounding. The Long Pond, too, is better in its sharpness of 

 outline than a lake would have been with more accidental and 

 informal character. The long perspective of the straight banks, 

 leading to the line of trees which makes a definite boundary to 

 the stretch of smooth water, is by no means ineffective. The 

 view from the south terrace at Tatton Park (Plates CXVII. and 

 CXVIII.) suggests some sort of compromise between naturalism 

 and formality because the regularity of the formal garden is brought 

 into somewhat close juxtaposition with the freer growth of the 

 park beyond ; but the largeness with which the garden is treated 

 is agreeable and its plan is well spaced so as to fill correctly the 

 ground allotted to it. The other view of the terrace, with the 

 stone seat, makes a good picture of a quiet spot where there is 

 order without rigidity and artistic discipline without mechanical 

 artificiality. 



Thoresby Park (Plate CXIX.) belongs to that class or gardens in 

 which a large extent of ground is formalised and brought per- 

 manently under the gardener's hand. Work on such a scale always 

 runs the risk of seeming disconnected, and here the pattern is a 

 little too scattered to be quite successful. But a design of this type 

 has its place among the recognised illustrations of the formal manner 

 and it is useful to compare it with others which are confined within 

 closer boundaries. Some excellent examples of terraces of the 

 plainer kind are given in Plates CXXI. and CXXII., of Tissington 

 Hall, and Plate CXXIII., of Warwick Castle. Those at Tissington 

 Hall are simple masonry walls, of small height, by which the slope 

 of the ground is regulated and flat intermediate spaces are formed to 

 accommodate paths and flower beds. In a garden of moderate 

 dimensions this manner of dealing with a hill-side is both effective 

 and convenient because a broad terrace with a high wall and a 

 confined space below would be unmeaning ; while with a succession 

 of terraces as at Tissington all necessary variety can be obtained 

 without allowing any part of the garden to overweight the rest. 

 When the terraces are as low as these the absence of a balustrade is 

 artistically right and practically no disadvantage ; the repetition ot 

 the balustrade on wall above wall would be irritating and would 

 destroy the breadth of effect, and the drop from level to level is too 

 slight to make necessary even a semblance of protection. How 



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