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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
only be done in winter ; but when the ground is to be 
newly planted, it may be prosecuted at any season. 
The late Mr. Repton, who was one of the most celebrated 
English practical landscape gardeners, has laid down in 
one of his works, the following rules on the subject, which 
we quote, not as applying in all cases, but to show what are 
generally thought the principal requisites of this road in the 
modern style. 
First. It ought to be a road to the house, and to that prin- 
cipally. 
Secondly. If it be not naturally the nearest road possible, 
it ought artificially to be made to appear so. 
Thirdly. The artificial obstacles which make this road 
the nearest, ought to appear natural. 
Fourthly. Where an approach quits the high road, it ought 
not to break from it at right angles, or in such a manner as 
to rob the entrance of importance, but rather at some bend of 
the public road, from which a lodge or gate may be more 
conspicuous ; and where the high road may appear to 
branch from the approach, rather than the approach from the 
high road. 
Fifthly. After the approach enters the park, it should avoid 
skirting along its boundary, which betrays the want of extent 
or unity of property. 
Sixthly. The house, unless very large and magnificent, 
should not be seen at so great a distance as to make it ap- 
pear much less than it really is. 
Seventhly. The first view of the house should be from the 
most pleasing point of sight. 
Eighthly. As soon as the house is visible from the ap- 
proach, there should be no temptation to quit it, (which will 
ever be the case if the road be at all circuitous,) unless suifi- 
