The art of landscape gardening . es) in almost every direction. Except a verynarrow slip of plantation to the north, two large elmsnear the house, and a few in hedge-rows at a distance. 8 The Art of Landscape Gardening the spot is destitute of trees : the first object, therefore,must be to shelter the house by home shrubberies ; ason land of such value extensive plantations would bean unpardonable want of economy. No general plan of embellishment can, perhaps, bedevised which is more eligible than that so oftenadopted by Mr. Brown, viz. to surround a paddockwith a fence, enclosing a shrubbery
The art of landscape gardening . es) in almost every direction. Except a verynarrow slip of plantation to the north, two large elmsnear the house, and a few in hedge-rows at a distance. 8 The Art of Landscape Gardening the spot is destitute of trees : the first object, therefore,must be to shelter the house by home shrubberies ; ason land of such value extensive plantations would bean unpardonable want of economy. No general plan of embellishment can, perhaps, bedevised which is more eligible than that so oftenadopted by Mr. Brown, viz. to surround a paddockwith a fence, enclosing a shrubbery and gravel walkround the premises : this idea was happily executed byhim at Mr. Drummonds delightful place near Stan-more ; but as an attempt has been made to follow thesame plan at Brandsbury, without considering the dif-ference of the two situations, I shall beg leave to explainmyself by the following sections and remarks. Where the natural shape of the ground is concave,as that at Stanmore [Fig. i], nothing can be more desir-. Fig. I. Illustrating the shape of the ground at Stannnore. 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 m^ ^ , ~^— — ^-^
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