. The art of landscape gardening. resufficient motives ; but views of distant mountains,which may be seen as well highroad, are notfeatures that justify extensive lawn over a flat surface.^ Theory and Practice 155 To do away with the impression of confinement atAttingham, the park should be extended across theroad, and thus the stranger will be induced to believehe passes through and not at the extremity of the , some striking and interesting features shouldbe brought into notice, such as the junction of the Sev-ern and theTerne, which may be actually effected withinthe l
. The art of landscape gardening. resufficient motives ; but views of distant mountains,which may be seen as well highroad, are notfeatures that justify extensive lawn over a flat surface.^ Theory and Practice 155 To do away with the impression of confinement atAttingham, the park should be extended across theroad, and thus the stranger will be induced to believehe passes through and not at the extremity of the , some striking and interesting features shouldbe brought into notice, such as the junction of the Sev-ern and theTerne, which may be actually effected withinthe limits of the park; and particularly the great archacross the Terne, of which no adequate advantage is atpresent taken. There are, also, some large trees andmany interesting points of view, which well deserveattention in a plan professing to increase the numberof beautiful circumstances rather than the number ofacres in the park. In opposition to Mr. Prices idea, that all improve-ment of scenery should be derived from the works of. Fig. 21. Scene in the grounds at Attingham great painters, I shall observe that there are, at pre-sent, very near the house, some fragments of an old milland brick arches [see Fig. 21] which make a charm-ing study for a painter; the composition is not unlikea beautiful picture of Ruisdales, at Attingham, whichevery man of taste must admire: of this scene, as itnow exists, I have endeavoured to give a faint idea. 156 The Art of Landscape Gardening Among the trees is seen part of the colonnade thatjoinsthe east wing to the body of the house : from the gen-eral character of this scenery, we cannot but suppose thisto be a fragment of some ruined Grecian temple, and nopart of a modern inhabited palace. Hence it is evidentthat the mind cannot associate the ideas of elegancewith neglect or perfect repair and neatness with ruin anddecay : such objects, therefore, however picturesque inthemselves, are incongruous and misplaced if near sucha palace as Attingham
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