Secondly, tliese walls were never consi- 

 dered as defects, but, on the contrary, 

 were ornamented with vases, expensive 

 iron gates, and palisades, to render them 

 more conspicuous. Thirdly, so far from 

 making gardens appear natural, every ex- 

 pedient was used to display the costly 

 efforts of Art, by which Nature had been 

 subdued: the ground was levelled by a 

 line; the water was squared or rounded 

 into regular basons ; the trees, if not 

 clipped into artificial shapes, were at least 

 so planted by line and measurement, that • 

 the formal hand of art could no where be 

 mistaken. And, Fourthly, with respect to 

 objects of convenience, they were placed 

 as near the house as possible: the stables, 

 the barns, and the kitchen garden, were 

 among the ornaments of a place; while 

 the village, the almshouse, the parish 

 school, and church-yard, were not at- 

 tempted to be concealed by the walls or 

 palisades that divided them from the em- 

 bellished pleasure ground. 



Congruity of style, uniformity of cha- ofUnity. 

 racter, and harmony of parts with the 



