Practical Hints Upon Landscape Gardening; With Some Remarks on Domestic Architecture as Connected with Scenery (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAP. IV. PLANTING.--ERRORS COMMITTED. IRREGULAR FORM IN OPPOSITION TO OVALS AND CIRCLES. CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SIR UVEDALE PRICE AND MR. REPTON. From the dress ground we pass to the scenery beyond it. As the beauty and character of this part of the picture will depend (as far as art can assist it) chiefly upon planting, some general hints may be given on that head, for conducting it so as to show and improve such varieties of ground as the place may possess, though it will not be possible to give a plan that shall be applicable to all cases. One rule, indeed, may be universally laid down--never to plant a belt. In planting, the first care should be to connect the different plantations under one general intention; not to scatter them in detached spots, as it were at random, without any purpose of uniting them in composition. How frequently do we see undulations of ground, which might have been infinitely varied by judicious planting, utterly deformed by a cap of fir or larch placed on every swell. Whereas, had the plantation on one knoll extended into the hollow, it would have more strongly marked the depth between it and the corresponding swell on the other side of the valley; on which swell a looser plantation might flow halfway down, connecting it again, by a straggling group or two, with some other mass of wood. No. 72. of the Quarterly Review inculcates this lesson with great force and taste: the passage will be found worthy of attentive perusal. "The improver ought to be governed by "the natural features of the ground, in choos"ing the shape of his plantations, as well as "in selecting the species of ground to be "planted. A surface of ground undulating "into eminences and hollows forms, to a "person who delights in such a task, per"haps, the most agreeable ...