. The art of landscape gardening. place,without one remarkable object to call the attention fromthe trees, which are everywhere mixed in the sameunvaried manner. Although the verdure, the smoothness of the surface,and nature of the soil at Bulstrode are such as to makeevery part of the park pleasant to drive over, yet thereis a propriety in marking certain lines of communicationwhich may lead from one interesting spot to another;and though a road of approach to a house ought not tobe circuitous, the drive is necessarily so; yet this shouldbe under some restraint. By the assistance of the map[P
. The art of landscape gardening. place,without one remarkable object to call the attention fromthe trees, which are everywhere mixed in the sameunvaried manner. Although the verdure, the smoothness of the surface,and nature of the soil at Bulstrode are such as to makeevery part of the park pleasant to drive over, yet thereis a propriety in marking certain lines of communicationwhich may lead from one interesting spot to another;and though a road of approach to a house ought not tobe circuitous, the drive is necessarily so; yet this shouldbe under some restraint. By the assistance of the map[Plate xiii], I shall describe in a note the course ofthe drive at Bulstrode; and however devious it mayappear on paper, it will, I trust, be found to possess sucha variety as few drives can boast, and that no part of itis suggested without sufficient reasons for its course. I would not here be understood to infer that everypark can boast those advantages which Bulstrode pos-sesses, or that every place offisrs sufficient extent and. /
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