The art of landscape gardening . shape of the surface of ground, especially as thereis no part of my profession attended with so muchexpense, or more frequently objected to, because sooften mismanaged. 78 The Art of Landscape Gardening Where a ridge of ground very near the eye inter-cepts the view of a valley below, it is wonderful howgreat an effect may be produced by a very triflingremoval of the ridge only ; thus, at Moccas Court, avery small quantity of earth concealed from the housethe view of that beautiful reach of the River Wye,which has since been opened. At Oldbury Court theview is o
The art of landscape gardening . shape of the surface of ground, especially as thereis no part of my profession attended with so muchexpense, or more frequently objected to, because sooften mismanaged. 78 The Art of Landscape Gardening Where a ridge of ground very near the eye inter-cepts the view of a valley below, it is wonderful howgreat an effect may be produced by a very triflingremoval of the ridge only ; thus, at Moccas Court, avery small quantity of earth concealed from the housethe view of that beautiful reach of the River Wye,which has since been opened. At Oldbury Court theview is opened into a romantic glen by the same kindof operation. At Catchfrench the same thing is advised,to shew the opposite hills ; and in this instance it mayappear surprising that the removal of a few yards ofearth was sufficient to display a vast extent of distantprospect. But this effect must depend on the natural shape ofthe surface near the eye; for example, if the shape bethat of the upper line a [Fig. 6], the object at f can-. Fig. 6. not be seen without the removal of all the earthbetween the dotted line and the surface, but if theshape be that of b, the removal of the part not shadedwill not be sufficient to shew the valley; and it is notalways desirable to see the whole surface ; on the con-trary, it is better that a part should be concealed thanthat the whole should be shewn foreshortened, which isalways the case in looking down or up an inclinedplane. The most arduous operations of removing groundare generally those where the geometric taste of garden- Theory and Practice 79 ing had distorted the natural surface, and where itwould now be attended with much greater trouble andexpense to restore the ground to its original shapethan had been formerly dedicated to make those slopesand regular forms, which are more like the works ofa military engineer than of a painter or a gardener. Few instances have occurred to me where greatexpense in moving ground was requisite to produ
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