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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



mansion at Burleigh loses half its character 

 and effect from the want of an architectural 

 separation from the park. As it now is, the 

 naked lawn around it, and that only par- 

 tially mowed, has an unfinished appearance, 

 and excites a regret that some of the origi- 

 nal features had not been preserved, or 

 have not been judiciously restored, as the 

 indispensable accompaniments to such a 

 splendid specimen of Elizabethan architec- 

 ture. There would, doubtless, be some diffi- 

 culty in the arrangement, from the shape of 

 the ground, and from the living rooms being 

 on a level with the lawn ; but I conceive that 

 the richness and embellishment so peculiarly 

 essential to a mansion of that character could 

 be drawn around it with great advantage. 



Though the foregoing observations are prin- 

 cipally applicable to the buildings of former 

 years, with the hope of preventing the de- 

 struction of the architectural accompaniments 

 where they already exist, yet, as I have before 

 stated, I should strongly recommend them 

 (particularly the terrace) to general adoption, 

 regulated by the circumstances of each place, 

 as there are scarcely any situations that might 

 not be improved by the application, while to 



