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.

“ size, the clumps also must be smaller and
“ fewer.
“ With regard to the general form of the
“ larger clump, we observed, that in a single
“ tree we expected elegance in the parts. In
<( the smaller clumps this idea was relinquished,
“ and in its room we expected a general con-
“ trust in trunks, branches, and foliage. But
“ as the clump becomes larger, and recedes
“ in the landscape, all these pleasing contrasts
“ are lost, and we are satisfied with a general
“ form. No regular form is pleasing. A clump
“ on the side of a hill, or in any situation
(i where the eye can more easily investigate
“ its shape, must be circumscribed by an irre-
“ gular line, in which it is required that the
“ undulations both at the base and summit of
“ the clump should be strongly marked ; as
“ the eye, probably, has a distinct view of
“ both.” *
Sir Uvedale Price, with his usual accurate
discrimination, says—“ It is only by a habit
“ of observation, added to natural sensibility,
“ that we learn to distinguish what is really
“ beautiful from what is merely smooth and

* Gilpin’s Forest Scenery, vol. i. p. 177.