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establishments, and castles modernised in imitation of them ; noble¬ 
men’s and gentlemen’s country seats, down to the suburban villa. 
It is very obvious that these different establishments require different 
styles of exterior as well as of interior decoration. The royal palace 
should have accompaniments of a very different character, and on a 
much more ample scale, than any private residence whatever. The 
style of gardening introduced by Kent, as exemplified at Kew, was an 
attempt to bestow gracefulness and beauty on a place which he perhaps 
considered as too formal and unpicturesque (he, being a painter by pro¬ 
fession, had become enamoured of irregular forms). On this spot he 
was undoubtedly right, because it was then, as now, a private, rather 
than a public, royal palace. What he did at Claremont was also in the 
irregular style ; and, unluckily , his followers, the Brownists, not only 
embraced his principles, but considered them applicable to every resi¬ 
dence in the kingdom, whether palace or abbey/castle or villa. 
The Dutch style of ornamental gardening is certainly the best suited 
for the embellishment of a royal palace. Magnificence, grandeur, 
and dignity, should be the attributes of a residence of royalty, particu¬ 
larly if used for state occasions. The palace itself should occupy a 
commanding station, considerably elevated above the subject territory. 
To add dignity thereto, the gardener must subdue the ground by 
bringing it into an ostensibly artificial form, and the whole vegetable 
kingdom into subjection, by arranging his trees in right lines, to form 
avenues of approach to. or wide and open glades diverging in all direc¬ 
tions from, the palace. The angles subtended by the avenues and 
glades should be thickly planted, to give massiveness to the sylvan 
features. No kind of intricacy of lines, or disposition of herbs or 
shrubs, are admissible here, which would detract from the solemn 
majesty of the scenes. 
Hampton Court, Kensington Gardens, and parts of St. James’s Park, 
were originally laid out in this style, and in all these places has been 
partly maintained. In the latter it has been lately departed from, and 
some very beautiful irregular scenery created ; but with what pro¬ 
priety, as attached to a royal palace at one end, and to a military 
parade at the other, I shall not take upon me to decide. 
A ducal palace has no peculiar character requiring any definite style 
of embellishment, other than what high rank and affluence demand ; 
as a rule, however, nothing that is petty, either in design or execution, 
should be observable about such an abode. 
An archiepiscopal palace, from the sacred character of the occupier, 
should afford all the advantages of solemn quiet and L retirement; it 
should be embosomed in lofty groves of trees, chiefly evergreens, cedars, 
