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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Grounds. 



lay. 42. Principal entrance. No. 43. Park, which may or 

 ing out mn y not be subdivided by hurdle fences, in the direc- 

 tions of the strips and avenues. No. 44. Embattled 

 avenue. No. 45. Avenue of platoons. No. 46. Walk 

 to the farm. No. 47. Winding walks in the natural 

 forest scenery. 



Fig. J . of Plate CCCXLV. represents a general view 

 of this residence. 



Plate CCCXLIV. is a profile of a complete residence 



9 LATE 

 CCCXLV. 

 Fig. 1. 



, in the modern style of laying out grounds ; the trees, 



IXLALIV. - - - .... 



' as in the other specimen, being supposed, with the ex- 

 ception of such as were already there, to be of fifteen 

 years growth. 



This situation, as far as respects surface, is supposed to 

 be exactly the same as the other, a flat, with a ridge or 

 rise in the middle; but instead of being situated in a 

 wild country, it is supposed to be surrounded by cul- 

 tivated fields, enclosed and subdivided by hedges, strips 

 of plantation, walls, and other'fences. A magnificent 

 and comfortable residence is, in such a situation, to be 

 created by a more refined display of art and human in- 

 dustry than in the former case ; and wild nature, now 

 banished from the general surface of the country by ex- 

 tended cultivation, is to be invited back as a more ele- 

 vated and distinguishing description of beauty, partly, 

 as being more rare, and calculated to strike, by con- 

 trast, and partly as being more suitable to the taste and 

 notions of man, after a certain progress in civilization 

 and refinement. 



Scarcely any motive but general convenience can here 

 be supposed to influence the situation of the house ; 

 the offices and gardens are disposed on the contrary 

 side to the other, merely to afford some difference be- 

 tween the two designs ; but their general form, style,. 

 and elevations, are nearly the same, in order to exclude 

 any classical associations which a Grecian building 

 might have introduced, and thus have occasioned a par- 

 tial judgment as to the effect of the new style of gar- 

 dening, compared with that of the ancients. 



No. 1. Is the entrance portico for carriages to drive 

 under, a mode which should never, in our opinion, be 

 omitted either in public or private buildings ; for what 

 can be more ridiculous and inconsistent with our gene- 

 ral attention to comforts and luxuries, than issuing from 

 a warm room, and walking half a dozen yards in the rain 

 or wind to enter a carriage ? No. 2. Hall and grand 

 stair-case leading to a cloister on the first floor, extending 

 round the quadrangle, and communicating with No. 3. 

 the family stair. No. 4. Stair for married strangers. No. 

 5. Stair for single strangers, &c. No. 6. Dining room. 

 No. 7. Library. No. 8. Drawing room. No. 9. Mu- 

 sic room. No. 10. Kitchen side. No. 11. Chapel. 

 No. 12. Conservatory. No. 13. Glass varandah, or 

 passage open on both sides, with a glazed roof, under 

 which vines may be trained, leading to No. 14. Aviary, 

 or garden covered by a wire netting, 40 or 50 feet from 

 the ground, so as to include forest trees, in which na- 

 tive and foreign birds may range undisturbed, &c. 

 No. 15. Green-house. No. 16. Flower garden. No. 

 17- Hot-houses. No. 18. Winter garden. No. 19. 

 Open walk in ditto. No. 20. Covered walk formed 

 entirely of evergreens. No. 21. Group of statuary and 

 rock work for winter and early flowering plants. No. 

 21. Passage, to No. 22. the kitchen garden. No. 23. 

 Forcing houses of approved curvilineal forms, being seg- 

 ments of spheres. (See note to chap, v.) No. 24. Gar- 

 dener's house. No. 25. Orchard. No. 26. Melon 

 ground. No. 27. Walk to farm. No. 28. Back road 

 to stables. No. 29. Line of wire fence enclosing the 



pleasure ground. No. 30. Part of the park fed by sheep. Art of lay. 

 No. 31. Broad gravel walk, with an equal breadth of ing out 

 turf on each side for such as jTrefer walking on that ma- ^ roun ^v 

 terial, shade and cover being produced by plarlting trees p^ A j~* 

 in the line of separation between the gravel and turf. No. CCCXLIV. 

 3'2. A similar walk in tile park, or ibrest scenery. No. 

 33. Permanent sunk fence between the deer park and 

 that part to be grazed by sheep. No. 34. Bridge over 

 the lake. No. 35. Park scenery. No. 36. Cultivated 

 scenes, harmonized by bringing one arable field, No. 

 37. into the park, and extending trees, No. 38. and 

 grass, No. 39- among the arable lands. No. 40. Situ- 

 ations for furze, briars, ferns, and other low growths. 

 No. 41. Approaches. No. 42. Public road. No. 43. 

 Fields appropriated to the park, the fences of the pub- 

 lic road being sunk walls. No. 44. Farm. No. 45. 

 Barn. No. 46. Bailiff's house and garden. No. 47. 

 Straw yards. No'. 48. Rick yard. No. 49. Line in 

 which a riding may be taken, or in which carriages 

 may drive round the park, and from thence in any de- , 



sirable direction, with a view to enjoying the beauties 

 of a riding. 



Plate CCCXLV. Fig. 2. is a general view of tin's re- P LATE 

 sidence. CCCXLV.' 



The whole extent of the park is not shewn either in Kig. 2. 

 Plates CCCXLI II. or CCCXLIV. partly because it is 

 unnecessary in conveying a general idea of style and 

 arrangement, but principally because the necessarily 

 limited magnitude of plates in a work of this nature, 

 precludes the idea, on so small a scale. 



In these plans, a very slight shade is adopted as the 

 aerial tint for the surface of the higher grounds ; and 

 the lower levels are darkened in proportion to their 

 depth. The situation of the sun is taken at south-east, 

 and his elevation at 45 ; whence it follows, that the 

 shadow of every object, measured in that direction, will 

 shew exactly its height. In the case of trees and coni- 

 cal objects, the dimension must, of course, be taken 

 from their centre or highest points. 



Plate CCCXLVI. is the working plan to Plate P LAT E 

 CCCXLIV. The first thing to be observed in this plan, CCCXLVI. 

 is the original positions and divisions of the fields, and 

 public and private roads, brook and farm houses : the 

 crosses thus ( x ,) on certain. lines, signifying that they 

 are to be removed ; the dotted masses represent the forms 

 of the proposed plantations ; and the dotted crosses ad- 

 joining these, the situations for single trees ; and the small 

 circles (o,) the situations for groups. The kind of tree to be 

 planted, is represented by capitals, and the sort of shrub 

 by small letters. These must refer to a prepared list of 

 trees and shrubs. The fences, culture, and other par- 

 ticulars of the plantations, will be contained in the 

 book of improvement, or, as it is termed by Mr. Rep- 

 ton, the red b<,ok of the place. 



No. 1. Is the site and outline of the house find offices, 

 which must be 'left for separate plans and details, or 

 for the architect. No. 2. Site of the pleasure ground, 

 terrace, gardens, kitchen-garden, hot-houses, &c. which 

 must be explained and executed from separate plans, 

 sections, and particulars, it being sufficient in this ge- 

 neral plan to mark out their site, so as to admit of exe- 

 cuting the grand masses of plantation. No. 3. Lines of 

 roads and walks, which may be executed independent- 

 ly of the house and pleasure grounds. No. 4. Outline 

 of water. No. 5. Sections of ditto, shewing the differ- 

 ence between the present and former surface, the line 

 a b being the level of the water. No. 6. General sec- 

 tions across the residence, the line a b being that of the 

 level of the ground on which the house stands. No. 1, 



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