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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



proceed to consider such questions as may 

 occur to me. 



It has been already stated, that judicious 

 improvement must be founded upon the size* 

 character, and circumstances of the place to 

 which it is applied. Were this rule more 

 generally observed, the result would be a 

 harmonious consistency in each place, and a 

 variety when compared with others of even 

 apparently similar features. There is one 

 circumstance, however, which, in my opinion? 

 is equally applicable to all, — from the palace 

 to the smallest residence of gentility, — viz. 

 the entrance. I have, in another place, 

 strongly expressed my feeling upon this sub- 

 ject ; but, as it is an error, not of accident, 

 but of design, I cannot but press the con- 

 sideration of it as a matter of the utmost 

 moment, both to internal comfort, and to ex- 

 ternal effect. 



Where a house is to be built, I would 

 request the owner to study well the scenery 

 around; for want of which precaution we 

 frequently find the offices occupying the 

 ground on which the drawing-room should 

 have been placed, and the entrance destroy- 

 ing the repose of the library. Where a house 



