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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
place there are a great many bad ones, and we cannot but 
think that our country residences would be much more 
agreeable, if artists were allowed to arrange the places — 
at least, to make suggestions, just as artists are allowed 
to build the houses, or, at any rate, help build them. 
The necessary result then, as we have previously 
observed, is that a person going into the country 
to live, makes his own place from his neighbor’s sug- 
gestions, or from ideas derived from his neighbor’s 
place — which may be very faulty or of an entire differ- 
ent character from his own — with the aid, perhaps, of 
his gardener and a suggestive nurseryman. A great 
many places are manufactured from these three sources ; 
and the general character of them all is so much alike, 
that there is little or no distinction between half a dozen 
in the same neighborhood, though a competent Land- 
scape Gardener might have developed many different 
beauties in each. 
In the absence, therefore (from having been already 
mentioned in the first part of this book), of any of those 
very marked and distinguished residences which have 
received the stamp of years, where trees have grown 
into studies, and the places themselves have become 
schools for the lovers of art, we trust we shall 
not be thought invidious if we confine ourselves 
to a brief mention of a few of the prominent places 
which have come under our notice — ■ being quite 
aware that they are well deserving of much more than 
we have an opportunity to say. We were in hopes 
with many of these to have given illustrations, but here 
again time failed us ; even the one or two we succeeded 
in procuring were too late for the engraver. 
We are quite aware we shall be forced to omit a 
great many in more remote parts of the country, which 
we have not yet had the pleasure of seeing, and this 
makes us the more regret that our limits and our time 
will allow us to do so little. 
