3,2 Landscape-Gardenings 



its character, and improve the distant scenery as will best 

 accord with its natural character. 



With respect to ornamental or horticultural buildings, their 

 place is usually fixed by the gardener, and the structure, in 

 course, is arranged by the architect, the style of the house 

 being the basis. 



The foregoing observations are preliminary to the practical 

 remarks which follow, and which are intended to show more 

 directly their application. This will be easiest done by choos- 

 ing well known subjects, where the landscape-gardener's art is 

 alv/ays displayed. 



The limjal Palace. — Royal palaces are generally in the 

 environs of the metropolis. Champain scenery can but rarely 

 be appropriated as an appendage, but whatever portion of 

 ground may belong to the royal residence, it must be disposed 

 in a style which at every step should impress ideas of gran- 

 deur and pre-eminence. Had the architect and gardener a 

 choice, they would place the palace on a considerable emi- 

 nence ; its front overlooking the city ; its gilded domes sur- 

 mounting all other objects, and commanding as extensive 

 views as possible of the subject territory. 



The architect would place the palace on a raised terrace, 

 faced on the front and flank sides in the same architectural 

 style as the palace itself, surmounted by a balustrade, and all 

 the objects of Italian gardening; in the rear will be placed the 

 various offices, closely surrounded by thick plantations, in 

 which may be shady rides, &c. 



The gardener's business here will be to apply the principles 

 of Dutch gardening, by tracing from the three fronts, direct, 

 and very wide glades or approaches to, or openings from the 

 the palace, each terminated by suitable buildings as gates, or 

 pavilions. The sides of these openings should be planted with 

 double or treble ranks of regular-growing trees, as limes, elms, 

 planes, or chestnuts. Two intermediate glades may diverge 

 from the angles of the principal front also regularly planted. 

 The angular spaces contained between those diverging avenues 

 should be filled with dense masses of trees, intersected by 

 right-lined vistas from different parts of one opening to an- 

 other. No kind of variety, intricacy, or irregularity should be 

 admitted here; nothing should distract the eye, or call the 

 mind from the serene dignity of the scene. The architecture, 

 masses of vegetation, expanses of lawn and water, and walks, 

 should all assimilate in amplitude. 



Country residences for royalty have no peculiar distinction 

 from those of the nobility, save only, perhaps, regal emblems 

 on the gates, and among the architectural ornaments of the 



