. The art of landscape gardening. se was built, and so disposed atthe foot of the hill that no trace of artificial manage-ment is now to be discovered. Among the greatest examples of removing groundmay be mentioned the work going on at Bulstrode,under the direction of His Grace the Duke of Portlandhimself; whose good taste will not suffer any part ofthat beautiful park to be disguised by the misjudging 8o The Art of Landscape Gardening taste of former times, and who, by opening the valleysand taking away a great depth of earth from the stemsof the largest trees, which had been formerly buried,
. The art of landscape gardening. se was built, and so disposed atthe foot of the hill that no trace of artificial manage-ment is now to be discovered. Among the greatest examples of removing groundmay be mentioned the work going on at Bulstrode,under the direction of His Grace the Duke of Portlandhimself; whose good taste will not suffer any part ofthat beautiful park to be disguised by the misjudging 8o The Art of Landscape Gardening taste of former times, and who, by opening the valleysand taking away a great depth of earth from the stemsof the largest trees, which had been formerly buried,is, by degrees, restoring the surface of the ground toits original and natural shape. As connected with the subject of moving ground,I shall extract from my Red Book of Wentworth thefollowing observations concerning the great work atthat place which had so long been carrying on underthe direction of the late Marquis of Rockingham. Of the view from the portico at Wentworth House[Figs. 7 and 8], my opinion is so contrary to that of. Fig. 7. View from Wentworth House, before it was improved, and while the im-provements were going forward. many others who have advised a farther removal ofthe hill that I hope it will not be improper to statevery fully the reasons on which 1 ground this opinion,viz. that so far from such an operation being equi-valent to the trouble by which it must be executed,I would not advise its removal, if it could be muchmore easily effected, because — 1. The outline of the horizon beyond this hill isalmost a straight line, and would be very offensivewhen shewn over another straight line parallel to it. 2. The view of the valley beyond, however rich initself, is too motley to form a part of the proper Theory and Practice 8i landscape from such a palace as Wentworth House,although, from many situations in the park, it is a veryinteresting feature. 3. The vast plain, which has with so much difficultybeen obtained in front of the house, is exactly propor-tionat
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