PAEKS AND PLE ASUEE-GrROUNDS . 



adopted by persons having a taste for floriculture. 

 That may be partly true; but the ground occupied in 

 them by flower-gardens and pleasure-grounds could as 

 readily have been applied to the production of rural 

 scenery in general, and therefore may be equally re- 

 commended to those who have no special predilection 

 for plants. Certainly, to place the house near the 

 entrance-boundary is the most effectual method of 

 obtaining the seclusion which every one wishes in the 

 country, and securing space for lawns, kitchen -garden, 

 orchard, pasture-fields, or whatever else a man may 

 set his heart on. Any thing, almost, seems in better 

 taste than an exaggerated and ostentatious approach 

 contrived for the purpose of showing off to strangers 

 the columns and pilasters and fine proportions of the 

 house. 



Note. — ¥e have scarce a word to add beyond the 

 sensible and fitting remarks of our author, other than 

 to say, that the designs of the architect should be sub- 

 ordinate to the plan of the grounds, and the planta- 

 tions upon them. And in the construction of all, the 

 proprietor, in getting them up, should know exactly 

 what will please his own taste, and what he wants of 

 his villa after it is built. In the occupation of the 

 villa, wants and tastes differ so widely, that what 

 would please one would ill suit another, yet each be 

 an excellent house in its way. The purjDose of the 

 occupant, in fact, should be the expression of the villa, 

 as much as in a building for any other object. Pur- 

 suit, inclination, mode of life, considerations touching 

 the circumstances of one's family, their social rela- 

 tions — all, should measurably govern the internal ar- 

 rangement of the house, and in some cases, its locality 



