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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Part of that road is now converted into a 

 handsome terrace, commanding, through the 

 trees of the lofty bank which it surmounts, a 

 fall of water backed by a rising wood on the 

 other side of the valley through which the 

 river glides. The whole of this interesting 

 scenery was completely excluded from the 

 dress-ground by the injudicious situation of 

 the stable-road. Speaking of the entrance, 

 I would observe, that, in my opinion, there is 

 scarcely any circumstance which can justify 

 the driving round a plot of grass, either naked 

 or planted with shrubs : neither would I ge- 

 nerally make a semicircular sweep of gravel 

 before the door ; a rectangular form being 

 more in harmony with the architectural ar- 

 rangement of the building, especially if it be 

 on a large scale. 



As a mansion, of whatever character, re- 

 quires a corresponding extent of domain, it 

 will, in forming this accompaniment, be fre- 

 quently necessary to remove the limitation 

 of hedge-rows, to change arable into pas- 

 ture, and to clothe the widened extent with 

 large masses of plantation. But the dwelling 

 of less pretension by no means requires this 

 sacrifice. Here the approach may cross a 



