Gilpin, William S.: Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery (London: Cadell [u.a.], 1835)

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LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

mansion at Burleigh loses half its character
and effect from the want of an architectural
separation from the park. As it now is, the
naked lawn around it, and that only par-
tially mowed, has an unfinished appearance,
and excites a regret that some of the origi-
nal features had not been preserved, or
have not been judiciously restored, as the
indispensable accompaniments to such a
splendid specimen of Elizabethan architec-
ture. There would, doubtless, be some diffi-
culty in the arrangement, from the shape of
the ground, and from the living rooms being
on a level with the lawn; but I conceive that
the richness and embellishment so peculiarly
essential to a mansion of that character could
be drawn around it with great advantage.
Though the foregoing observations are prin-
cipally applicable to the buildings of former
years, with the hope of preventing the de-
struction of the architectural accompaniments
where they already exist, yet, as I have before
stated, I should strongly recommend them
(particularly the terrace) to general adoption,
regulated by the circumstances of each place,
as there are scarcely any situations that might
not be improved by the application, while to