. The art of landscape gardening. ttered masses of this splendid scenery willbe connected and brought together into one vast andmagnificent whole. The use of a plantation on this hill, in the approachfrom Rotherham, is evident, from the effect of a smallclump which will form a part of this great mass, andwhich now hides the house, till, by the judicious bendround that angle, the whole building bursts at onceupon the view. 82 The Art of Landscape Gardening It can readily be conceived that before the oldstables were removed there might appear some reasonfor not planting this hill; not because it
. The art of landscape gardening. ttered masses of this splendid scenery willbe connected and brought together into one vast andmagnificent whole. The use of a plantation on this hill, in the approachfrom Rotherham, is evident, from the effect of a smallclump which will form a part of this great mass, andwhich now hides the house, till, by the judicious bendround that angle, the whole building bursts at onceupon the view. 82 The Art of Landscape Gardening It can readily be conceived that before the oldstables were removed there might appear some reasonfor not planting this hill; not because it was too nearthe front, but because the view, thus bounded by awood on one side, and the large pile of old stables onthe other, would be too confined. That objection isremoved with the stables, and now a wood on this hillwill form a foreground, and lead the eye to each ofthose scenes, which are too wide apart ever to be con-sidered as one landscape. In the adjoining sketch [] I have endeavoured to shew the effect of planting. Fig. 8. view from Wentworth House, shewing the effect intended to be producedby the proposed alterations. this hill, leaving part of the rock to break out amongthe trees. In a line of such extent, and where the anglenearest the house will be rather acute, it may be neces-sary to hide part and to soften off the corner of theplantation by a few scattered single trees, in the mannerI have attempted to represent. Among the future uses of the hill plantation, it maybe mentioned that the shape which the ground mostnaturally seems to direct, for the outline of this wood,is such as will hereafter give opportunity to form themost interesting walk that imagination can suggest;because, from a large crescent of wood, on a knoll, the Theory and Practice 83 views must be continually varying; while, by a judi-cious management of the small openings, and the pro-per direction of the walks, the scenery in the park willbe shewn under different circumstances of foregroun
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