. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice ^SS To do away with the impression of confinement at Attingham, the park should be extended across the road, and thus the stranger will be induced to believe he passes through and not at the extremity of the park. Secondly, some striking and interesting features should be brought into notice, such as the junction of the Sev- ern and theTerne, which may be actually effected within the limits of the park; and particularly the great arch across the Terne, of which no adequate advantage is at present taken. There are, also
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice ^SS To do away with the impression of confinement at Attingham, the park should be extended across the road, and thus the stranger will be induced to believe he passes through and not at the extremity of the park. Secondly, some striking and interesting features should be brought into notice, such as the junction of the Sev- ern and theTerne, which may be actually effected within the limits of the park; and particularly the great arch across the Terne, of which no adequate advantage is at present taken. There are, also, some large trees and many interesting points of view, which well deserve attention in a plan professing to increase the number of beautiful circumstances rather than the number of acres in the park. In opposition to Mr. Price's idea, that all improve- ment of scenery should be derived from the works of. Fig. Zl. Scene in ciie grounds at Attinghjni great painters, I shall observe that there are, at pre- sent, very near the house, some fragments of an old mill and brick arches [see Fig. 21] which make a charm- ing study for a painter; the composition is not unlike a beautiful picture of Ruisdale's, at Attingham, which every man of taste must admire: of this scene, as it now exists, I have endeavoured to give a faint Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818; Nolen, John, 1869-1937; American Society of Landscape Architects. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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