. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 56 GARDEN MAXAGEMENT. picturesque groups in the park should harmonize with the gardenescjue groups on the lawn, and apparent extent and congruous variety be obtained. The picturesque style is only admissible beside Swiss cottages or rural residences, and can never be made to harmonize with the broad square outlines of any more imposing style of architecture. The worst possible arrangement is to surround the house with picturesque objects, with the highly-embellished geomet
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 56 GARDEN MAXAGEMENT. picturesque groups in the park should harmonize with the gardenescjue groups on the lawn, and apparent extent and congruous variety be obtained. The picturesque style is only admissible beside Swiss cottages or rural residences, and can never be made to harmonize with the broad square outlines of any more imposing style of architecture. The worst possible arrangement is to surround the house with picturesque objects, with the highly-embellished geometrical garden farther oflf; and yet we sometimes see a tangled thicket of furze-broom, thorns, and brambles, up to the very door, with a ravelled skein of wild roses, sweet-brier, and honeysuckle peeping in at the windows; while the highly- dressed garden is placed entirely out of view. This arrangement, however romantic, is altogether opposed to correct taste, and incompatible with the comfortable enjoyment of either house or garden. 137. The practice of planting the park and lawn so as to constitute an indivisible and perfect whole, may be objected to, because it practises a deception on the eye of the beholder. Burke, on the other hand, remarks, "that no work of art can be great but as it ; Without contending ver)^ strenuously for the entire truth of this sentiment, it must be admitted that it is not only allowable, but one of the chief merits of Art, to conceal the modes by which its eflFects are produced. If it is apparent that a splash of white paint is used to represent water or moonhght in a landscape, the merit of the picture must be of the most mediocre description. When we look at a good painting, we think nothing of brushes, easels, and colours, but only of the marvellous beauty and truthfulness to nature of the representation. The canvas speaks, but it speaks to us only of light and shade ; of depth, softness, and intensity of tone, and apparent e
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