252 GILPIN S FOKEST SCBNERy. 



To the size and grandeur of the house the 

 pai^k should be proportioned. Blenheim Castle with 

 a paddock around it, or a small villa in the 

 middle of Woodstock Park, would be equally out 

 of place. 



The house should stand nearly in the centre of 

 the park ; that is, it should have ample room on 

 every side. Petworth. House, one of the grandest 

 piles in England, loses mucli of its grandeur from 

 being 'placed at the extremity of the park, where 

 it is elbowed by a church-yard.* 



The exact spot depends entirely on the ground. 

 There are grand situations of various kinds. In 

 general, houses are built first, and parks are 

 added afterwards by the occasional removal of 

 enclosures. A great house stands, most nobly, on 

 an elevated knoll, from whence it may overlook 

 the distant country ; while the woods of the park 

 screen the regularity of the intervening cultiva- 



* Petworth House has the still further disadvantage of being 

 awk-wardly placed near the town. A very full and interesting 

 account of this mansion occurs in a little volume entitled 

 Petworth : a SJceteJ) of its Historij and Antiquities, by the Eev. 

 F. H. Arnold.— Ed. 



