518 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



place there are a great many bad ones, and we cannot but 

 think that our country residences would be much more 

 agreeable, if artists were allowed to arrange the places — 

 at least, to make suggestions, just as artists are allowed 

 to build the houses, or, at any rate, help build them. 



The necessary result then, as we have previously 

 observed, is that a person going into the country 

 to live, makes his own place from his neighbor's sug- 

 gestions, or from ideas derived from his neighbor's 

 place — which may be very faultyorof an entirely differ- 

 ent character from his own — with the aid, perhaps, of 

 his gardener and a suggestive nurseryman. A great 

 many places are manufactured from these three sources ; 

 and the general character of them all is so much alike, 

 that there is little or no distinction between half a dozen 

 in the same neighborhood, though a competent Land- 

 scape Gardener might have developed many different 

 beauties in each. 



In the absence, therefore (from having been already 

 mentioned in the first part of this book), of any of those 

 very marked and distinguished residences which have 

 received the stamp of years, where trees have grown 

 into studies, and the places themselves have become 

 schools for the lovers of art, we trust we shall 

 not be thought invidious if we confine ourselves 

 to a brief mention of a few of the prominent places 

 which have come under our notice — being quite 

 aware that they are well deserving of much more than 

 we have an opportunity to say. "We were in hopes 

 with many of these to have given illustrations, but here 

 again time failed us ; even the one or two we succeeded 

 in procuring were too late for the engraver. 



"We are quite aware we shall be forced to omit a 

 great many in more remote parts of the country, which 

 we have not yet had the pleasure of seeing, and this 

 makes us the more regret that our limits and our time 

 will allow us to do so little. 



