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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



indeed, the natural character of the place will 

 warrant the extermination of exotics so mis- 

 placed : in other situations, such a removal 

 would material^ injure the scenery, as in 

 one of the lines of approach at Oatlands, 

 which passes through a narrow hollow way, 

 and where time and accident have so united 

 the shrubs with the higher trees, that any 

 attempt to remove them would totally de- 

 stroy the beauty of the whole. Hollies, of 

 course, are not included in the foregoing re- 

 marks, as they are the growth of the forest, 

 as well as the ornament of the shrubbery. 



It is necessary here to mention, that I con- 

 sider a villa to be under the same circum- 

 stances, with regard to the approach, as the 

 cottage ornee. Though the residence may 

 be a palace as to size and character, yet the 

 limited domain on which it stands is a lesiti- 

 mate apology for the style of its accompani- 

 ments. A villa, I conceive, can only be so 

 termed, when within a few miles of a city ; 

 where a spacious residence is requisite, though 

 the domain is, from circumstances, confined ; 

 but should the domain be more extensive, as 

 at Sion House, the approach should then as- 

 sume a higher character, as it there does. 



