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false notes in music, and all because due regard has 

 not been paid to this particular. By exercise of 

 forethought in this matter, the house and garden 

 would have been linked to the site, and the site to 

 the landscape ; as it is, you wish the house at 

 Jericho ! * 



As the point of access to a house from the public 

 road and the route to be taken afterwards not infre- 

 quently determines the position of the house upon 

 the site, it may be well to speak of the Approach 

 first. In planning the ground, care will be taken 

 that the approach shall both look well of itself and 

 afford convenient access to the house and its appur- 

 tenances, not forgetting the importance of giving to 

 the visitor a pleasing impression of the house as he 

 drives up. 



* Not so thinks the author of " The English Flower Garden : " 

 " Imagine the effect of a well-built and fine old house, seen from the 

 extremity of a wide lawn, with plenty of trees and shrubs on its outer 

 parts, and nothing to impede the view of the house or its windows but 

 a refreshing carpet of grass. If owners of parks were to consider this 

 point fully, and, as they travel about, watch the effect of such lawns as 

 remain to us, and compare them with what has been done by certain 

 landscape-gardeners, there would shortly be, at many a country-seat, 

 a rapid carting away of the terrace and all its adjuncts." Marry, this 

 is sweeping ! But Repton has some equally strong words condemning 

 the very plan our Author recommends : " In the execution of my pro- 

 fession I have often experienced great difficulty and opposition in 

 attempting to correct thq false and mistaken taste for placing a large 

 house in a naked grass field, without any apparent line of separation 

 between the ground exposed to cattle and the ground annexed to the 

 house, which I consider as peculiarly under the management of art. 



" This line of separation being admitted, advantage may be easily 

 taken to ornament the lawn with flowers and shrubs, and to attach to 

 the mansion that scene of 'embellished neatness' usually called a 

 pleasure-ground" (Repton, p. 213. See also No. 2 of Repton's 

 "Objections," given on p. 116). 



