. The art of landscape gardening. Farm. ParkPlate XIV. Farm and Park Theory and Practice 139 objector condemn the effort till he can convince thejudgement that, without violation of good taste, he couldintroduce the dairy and the pig-sty (those useful append-ages of rural economy) into the recesses of the drawing-room or the area of the saloon. The difficulty of unitinga park and a farm arises from this material circumstance,that the one is an object of beauty, the other of scenery of both consists of ground, trees, water,and cattle; but these are very differently since

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. The art of landscape gardening. Farm. ParkPlate XIV. Farm and Park Theory and Practice 139 objector condemn the effort till he can convince thejudgement that, without violation of good taste, he couldintroduce the dairy and the pig-sty (those useful append-ages of rural economy) into the recesses of the drawing-room or the area of the saloon. The difficulty of unitinga park and a farm arises from this material circumstance,that the one is an object of beauty, the other of scenery of both consists of ground, trees, water,and cattle; but these are very differently since a park is less profitable than arable land, themore we can diminish I^e quantity of the former, pro-vided it still be in character with the style of the mansion,the less we shall regret the sacrifice of profit to beauty. The shape and colour of corn-fields and the straightlines of fences are so totally at variance with all ideasof picturesque beauty that I shall not venture to suggestany hints on the subject of a farm as an ornament;

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