. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. i8o The Art of Landscape Gardening 3d. li' the gates are of iron, the posts or piers ought to be conspicuous, because an iron gate hanging to an iron pier of the same colour Is almost invisible; and the principal entrance to a park should be so marked that no one may mistake it. 4th. If the entrance-gate be wood, it should, for the same reason, be painted white, and its form should rather tend to shew its construction than aim at fanciful orna- ment of Chinese, or Gothic, for reasons to be explained in speaking of Fig. 22. S
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. i8o The Art of Landscape Gardening 3d. li' the gates are of iron, the posts or piers ought to be conspicuous, because an iron gate hanging to an iron pier of the same colour Is almost invisible; and the principal entrance to a park should be so marked that no one may mistake it. 4th. If the entrance-gate be wood, it should, for the same reason, be painted white, and its form should rather tend to shew its construction than aim at fanciful orna- ment of Chinese, or Gothic, for reasons to be explained in speaking of Fig. 22. Stoke Park, Herefordshire. It is not sufficient that a building should be in just proportions with itself; it should bear some relative pro- portion to the objects near it. The example given [Fig. 22] is the Doric portico at Stoke Park, in Here- fordshire, where the size of the building was regulated by a large oak and a young plantation near it: had this building been more loftv, it would have overpowered the young trees by which it is surrounded, and a smaller. 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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