82 The Art of Landscape Gardening 



It can readily be conceived that before the old 

 stables were removed there might appear some reason 

 for not planting this hill ; not because it was too near 

 the front, but because the view, thus bounded by a 

 wood on one side, and the large pile of old stables on 

 the other, would be too confined. That objection is 

 removed with the stables, and now a wood on this hill 

 will form a foreground, and lead the eye to each of 

 those scenes, which are too wide apart ever to be con- 

 sidered as one landscape. In the adjoining sketch [Fig. 

 8] I have endeavoured to shew the effect of planting 



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Fig. 8. \'icw from Wentworth House, shewing the effect intended to be produced 

 bv the proposed alterations. 



this hill, leaving part of the rock to break out among 

 the trees. In a line of such extent, and where the angle 

 nearest the house will be rather acute, it may be neces- 

 sary to hide part and to soften off the corner of the 

 plantation by a few scattered single trees, in the manner 

 I have attempted to represent. 



Among the future uses of the hill plantation, it may 

 be mentioned that the shape which the ground most 

 naturally seems to direct, for the outline of this wood, 

 is such as will hereafter give opportunitv to form the 

 most interesting walk that imagination can suggest ; 

 because, from a large crescent of wood, on a knoll, the 



