PART III. ARCHITECTURE. l6S 



where trees grow low and irregular : irregular and low edifices 

 in the castle style may be built. In vallies, where they grow 

 high and elegant, houses in the tower style, which implies con- 

 siderable height, should generally be adopted. In extensive 

 rich plains, buildings in the Grecian, or at least in a more 

 massy and regular style than the others, should be chosen. 

 This mode is certainly deserving attention, were it for no other 

 reason than that the trees might group well with the building : 

 that, when full grown, they might neither be too large nor too 

 small ; that they might neither diminish it into insignificance, 

 nor leave it staring through trees, which, from want of due pro- 

 portion to it, appear as copse- wood. Many instances of both 

 these evils are to be seen in every part of the country. 



Let it be observed, that this mode of fixing on the style 

 must be attended to, though trees be not growing on the situa- 

 tion at the time of building. The judicious and experienced 

 designer will examine the qualities of the soil and climate, and 

 will thereby be enabled to judge what forms and dimensions 

 certain kinds of trees will assume in the given situation. Neg- 

 lect of .this, in the naked country of North Britain, has pro- 

 duced several houses so buried in wood, that they cannot be 

 seen until you are close upon them, and then they appear so 

 diminutive, compared with everything around, that their gran- 

 deur of effect is almost totally destroyed. This is one power- 



