NOTES ON DECORATIVE GARDENING.— Style of Teekaces of Diffekent Peeiods. 
By H. NOEL HUMPHREYS, Esq. 
OTIHE consideration of the style and character of the terrace, at distinct and distant epochs, is not 
IX without interest ; and, hy the study of this — the historical part of the question, garden architects 
may fi-equently avoid absui'dities and incongruities which are hut too _- 
often found, and which, to the eye of the student of the subject, are at ' 
once glaringly and disagreeably apparent. '■ ;i , '"■■ , 
Few of our readers ai'e unacquainted with the magnificent sim- - ;;_-- #^"' '> 
plicity of the great terrace at AVindsor Castle, which has been too often -^ S, 
engraved to render its repetition here necessary ; but a few remarks, ' ■" .^ :^^ 
relative to the principles which should govern the construction of terraces ^f==- "^k^'si?— 
of that description will not be out of place. In the first place, I hold 
that iu imitations of any style of architecture belonging to a formei 
period, the selection of site must he as cai-efully attended to as the 
architectm-al detail of the building; and, therefore, in buildings of a 
castellated character, an elevated position is, in most cases, absolutely 
necessary. Modern Gothic residences, in the valley, wiU he most suc- 
cessful in their efiect, if the pecidiarities of the monastic style are 
adopted ; while those in elevated situations will derive a greater degree 
of appropriate feeling by the development of the castel- 
lated character. The two styles had many distinct lines 
of separation : fii'st and most to our piu'pose, is theu- re- 
spective treatment of that portion of ground prepared as 
a daily promenade — in the monastery, built generally iu 
the valleys, where no extent or sublimity of prospect 
tempted the eye, an internal cloister was the promenade ; 
in the castle, built on the commanded promontory, the 
lampait, fiom which the extended \iew of the plain below 
might be &m-\eyed, became the fa-somite walk, — which, in 
latei peiiods, was %Mdened into the lampait-teiiace, — such 
is the one at A\ indsoi In this situption, the teiiace docs 
not itquiie blending into the land=;cape by any additional 
featme, — the battlementcd wall fcims a suiSucnt modu- 
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