Hints on Landscape Gardening 
perfectly secluded from those interferences 
which are the common effects of divided 
property and a populous neighborhood. 
Wembly is as quiet and retired at seven miles 
distance as it could have been at seventy. 
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The fatal experience of some who begin 
improvements by building a house too sump¬ 
tuous for the grounds, has occasionally in¬ 
duced others to consider the grounds inde¬ 
pendent of the house; but this, I conceive, 
will unavoidably lead to error. It is not 
necessary that the house and grounds should 
correspond with each other in point of size, 
but the characters of each should be in strict 
harmony, since it is hardly less 
incongruous to see a palace by 
the side of a neglected common, 
than an ugly ill-designed man¬ 
sion, whether large or small, in 
the midst of highly improved 
scenery, to every part of which 
it must be considered as a dis¬ 
grace. 
Our Figures 7 and 8 present 
the general view of the house, 
offices and stables as they appear 
in the approach. 1 n the present 
state (see Figure 7 ) there is a 
gloominess and confinement 
about the house, proceeding from 
the plantation, necessary to hide 
the vast quantity of unsightly 
buildings with which it was en¬ 
cumbered ; yet one of these 
buildings, viz., the laundry, is so 
large and lofty (see the sloping 
roof, rising over the square mass 
of the house in Figure 7 ) that 
it divides the interest with the 
mansion, or, rather, takes the 
lead of the house itself, by its 
color (being covered with blue 
slate) and more extravagant form. 
1 have supposed an opening 
made betwixt the house and the 
mass of wood surrounding the 
stables (on the right-hand side 
of the landscape), to detach them 
from each other and to give an 
extent and cheerfulness; which 
is the more advisable on that 
side, as, from the shape of the 
ground on the other, there is 
some confinement: though I 
confess, if the house were Gothic, 
that shape would rather be a 
circumstance of picturesque 
beauty, since we are accustomed 
to see elegant Gothic structures at the foot, 
or on the sloping side, of a hill. The sta¬ 
bles, without being too conspicuous, may be 
just seen to rise above the shrubbery, so that, 
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