A 



TREATISE 



ON 



FORMING, IMPROVING, AND MANAGING 



COUNTRY RESIDENCES ; 



AND ON THE 



CHOICE OF SITUATIONS APPROPRIATE TO EVERY CLASS OF PURCHASERS. 



IN ALL WHICH THE OBJECT IN VIEW IS TO UNITE IN A BET PER MANNER THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN DONE, 



A TASTE FOUNDED IN NATURE WITH ECONOMY AND UTILITY, 

 IN CONSTRUCTING OR IMPROVING 



MANSIONS, AND OTHER RURAL BUILDINGS, 



SO AS TO COMBINE ARCHITECTURAL FITNESS WITH PICTURESQUE EFFECT ; 



AND IN 



FORMING GARDENS,ORCHARDS, FARMS, PARKS,PLEASURE GROUNDS,SHRUBBERIES, ALL KINDS OF USEFUL OR DECOR ATIVE 

 PLANTATIONS, AND EVERY OBJECT OF CONVENIENCE OR BEAUTY PECULIAR TO COUNTRY SEATS ; 



ACCORDING TO THE EXTENT, CHARACTER, OR STYLE OF SITUATIONS, 



AND THE RANK, FORTUNE, AND EXPENDITURE OF PROPRIETORS ; 



FROM THE COTTAGE TO THE PALACE. 



WITH 



AN APPENDIX, 



CONTAINING AN ENQUIRY INTO THE UTILITY AND MERITS OF MR. REPTON'S MODE OF SHEWING EFFECTS BY SLIDES AND 

 SKETCHES, AND STRICTURES ON HIS OPINIONS AND PRACTICE IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



ILLUSTRATED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENERY AND BUILDINGS, 



B l r REFERENCES TOCO UNTR Y SEA TS, AND PASSAGES OF CO UNTR Y IN MOST PAR TS OF GREA T BRITAIN, 

 AND BY THIRTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS. 



By JOHN LOUDON, ESQ. F.L.S. 



MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, COMMERCE, &c. LONDON, OF THE SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE, PLANTING, &c. BATH ; 

 AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON HOT HOUSES, AND OBSERVATIONS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. 



LONDON: 



PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, KEES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 



BY C. WHITTINGHAM, DEAN-STREET. 



1806. 



