36 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



but quite becoming to the noble aristocrat, the 

 fame of whose family has been handed down for 

 centuries, and whose forefathers really needed 

 them to make strongholds of their abode. The 

 elder Repton (Amenity Repton, so-named) went 

 so far as to hide entirely with trees the fine view 

 of the city of Bristol, in order that the owner of 

 a certain villa, a merchant who had retired from 

 business, should not be unpleasantly reminded of 

 his past cares and worries by beholding the city 

 where he had spent his laborious days. This is 

 thoroughly English, as well as the endeavor of 

 many egotists there to hide from view everything 

 that belongs to their place, no matter how pic- 

 turesque it is. Without going so far, I will say 

 here that the view from the dwelling-house 

 should harmonize as much as possible with the 

 individual taste of the owner, since the eye al- 

 ways rests on it, and hence the view of the house 

 should be secondary to the wiew from the house, 

 while the reverse might hold good for most of 

 the other buildings of the park. 



I will remark here, by the way, that the points 

 of the compass should also be considered. A per- 

 son in our climate occupying the north side of 

 a dwelling will often hear the storm winds howl, 

 and will behold all objects under a somber veil, 

 while his neighbor who occupies the south side 

 beholds a clear sky and a sunlit landscape. 



Where there are genuine old castles, or manor 

 houses, which have been in the possession of the 

 family for a long time (not new buildings in imi- 



