. The art of landscape gardening. he trees, only shewing the gate ofentrance. Concerning gates, it may not be improper to mentionmy opinion, with reasons for it. I St. As an entrance near a town, I prefer close woodengates, for the sake of privacy, except where the view isonly into a wood, and not into the open lawn. 2d. The gates should be of iron, or close boards, ifhanging to piers of stone, or brick-work ; otherwise anopen or common field-gate of wood appears mean, or asif only a temporary expedient. i8o The Art of Landscape Gardening 3d. If the gates are of iron, the posts or piers oughtt
. The art of landscape gardening. he trees, only shewing the gate ofentrance. Concerning gates, it may not be improper to mentionmy opinion, with reasons for it. I St. As an entrance near a town, I prefer close woodengates, for the sake of privacy, except where the view isonly into a wood, and not into the open lawn. 2d. The gates should be of iron, or close boards, ifhanging to piers of stone, or brick-work ; otherwise anopen or common field-gate of wood appears mean, or asif only a temporary expedient. i8o The Art of Landscape Gardening 3d. If the gates are of iron, the posts or piers oughtto be conspicuous, because an iron gate hanging to aniron pier of the same colour is almost invisible; and theprincipal entrance to a park should be so marked thatno one may mistake it. 4th. If the entrance-gate be wood, it should, for thesame reason, be painted white, and its form should rathertend to shew its construction than aim at fanciful orna-ment of Chinese, or Gothic, for reasons to be explainedin speaking of Fig. 22. Stoke Park, Herefordshire. It is not sufficient that a building should be in justproportions with itself; it should bear some relative pro-portion to the objects near it. The example given[Fig. 22] is the Doric portico at Stoke Park, in Here-fordshire, where the size of the building was regulatedby a large oak and a young plantation near it: had thisbuilding been more lofty, it would have overpoweredthe young trees by which it is surrounded, and a smaller Theory and Practice i8i building would have appeared diminutive so near tothe neighbouring large oak; I therefore judged that thebest rule for the dimensions of the columns wasrather less than the diameter of the oak, and this, ofcourse, determined the whole proportion of the Doricportico. So prevalent is the taste for what is called Gothic,in theneighbourhood of great cities, that we see buildings ofevery description, from the villa to the pig-sty, with little
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