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give the environs of such a building a character of simple beauty, 
because it would be here incongruous. The history and style of archi¬ 
tecture of the principal object of the seat requires the preservation of 
every mark of antiquity, and of every sign of its former state. The 
subdued sober grey colour and irregular outline of the building would 
not at all harmonise with the general smoothness and fresh greenness 
of the surrounding lawn; and, as has been said on a somewhat similar 
association, the abbey would appear like an aged matron dressed out in 
the most flaunting attire. 
The above is an instance of how a landscape gardener’s endeavour to 
produce beautiful scenery in an unsuitable place would be a failure, 
and is a proof of what the best judges have written on the subject— 
namely, that unless the artist studies “the genius ” of the place, and its 
natural character, he can neither add to nor take away from it with 
success. 
But the art and profession of landscape gardening embraces a far 
more extensive range than the mere creation of unalloyed beauty ; and 
its professors, it is to be hoped, have much more expanded and compre¬ 
hensive views than to confine themselves to the simple exploits of 
levelling, sweeping, and tracing flowing lines. They cannot but be 
sensible how very interesting those scenes are which are called pictu¬ 
resque, and how much more skill and taste is required to form or improve 
them than those which are simply beautiful. 
Picturesque scenery exists in many parts of this kingdom, and not 
only within parks, but even within the bounds of pleasure-gardens. 
On the management or disposition of those spots the professional man 
may be called on for advice, and he cannot have a more pleasant task. 
And here he will find a painter’s ideas of what forms, or will in time 
form, fine pictures, will be of the greatest use to him; and therefore a 
knowledge of what the great masters have done, both in their paintings 
and drawings, should be well studied by the landscape gardener. 
Besides beautiful and picturesque combinations of visible objects, 
each of the objects, individually considered, is either beautiful, or 
picturesque, or ugly: their surfaces also are either agreeable or dis¬ 
agreeable ; and the like differences exist as to the colours of objects. 
Of the combinations I have already said as much, perhaps, as is 
necessary; but it remains to add a few observations on forms and 
colours. 
And, first, of the form of buildings. It has been observed by a 
writer of very great taste in these studies, that a house or temple 
of Grecian architecture, in its perfect entire state, and its surface 
and colour smooth and even, either in painting or reality, is 
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