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

DRESS GROUND.

£e dity at the entrance of a hollow must be
“ interposed. In every instance, when ground
“ changes its direction, there is a point where
“ the change is effected, and that point should
“ never appear; some other shapes, uniting
“ easily with both extremes, must be thrown
“in to conceal it. But there must be no
“ uniformity even in these connections : if
“ the same sweep be carried all round the
“ bottom of a swell, the same rotundity all
“ round the top of a hollow, though the
“junction be perfect, yet the art by which it
“ is made is apparent; and art must never
“ appear. The manner of concealing the
“ separation should itself be disguised; and
“ different degrees of cavity or rotundity,
“ different shapes and dimensions to the
“ little parts, thus distinguished by degrees;
“ and those parts breaking, in one place more,
“ in another less, into the principal forms
“ which are to be united, produce that va-
“ riety with which all nature abounds, and
“ without which ground cannot be natural.”*
Allowing, for the present, the justice of
the theory here laid down, what possible

Observations on Modern Gardening, p. 8.