. The art of landscape gardening. Fig. I. Illustrating the shape of the ground at Stanmore. able than to enrich the horizon by plantations on thehighest ground, and to flood the lowest by a lake orriver: in such a situation the most pleasing scenes willbe within the pale, looking on the opposite rising bankfringed with trees, or occasionally catching distant viewsover or beyond the fence. On the contrary, if the natural shape be convex, anyfence crossing the declivity must intercept those distantviews which an eminence should command, and which. Different Characters and Situations 9 at Brandsb
. The art of landscape gardening. Fig. I. Illustrating the shape of the ground at Stanmore. able than to enrich the horizon by plantations on thehighest ground, and to flood the lowest by a lake orriver: in such a situation the most pleasing scenes willbe within the pale, looking on the opposite rising bankfringed with trees, or occasionally catching distant viewsover or beyond the fence. On the contrary, if the natural shape be convex, anyfence crossing the declivity must intercept those distantviews which an eminence should command, and which. Different Characters and Situations 9 at Brandsbury are so rich and varied that nothing canjustify their total exclusion. A walk round a paddockin such a situation, enclosed by a lofty fence, would bea continual source of mortification ; as every step wouldexcite a wish either to peep through, or look over, thepale of confinement. ThePale ^^ TkePale Fig. 2. Illustrating the shape of the ground at Brandsbury. Where all the surrounding country presents the mostbeautiful pasture-ground, instead of excluding the vastherds of cattle which enliven the scene, I recommendthat only a sufficient quantity of land round the housebe enclosed to shelter and screen the barns, stables,kitchen-garden, offices, and other useful but unpleasingobjects ; and within this enclosure, though not contain-ing more than ten or twelve acres, I propose to conductwalks through shrubberies, plantations, and small se-questered lawns, sometimes winding into rich internalscenery, and sometimes breaking out upon the mos
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