Gleanings on gardens, chiefly respecting those of the ancient style in England / [Samuel Felton].

  • Felton, Samuel
Date:
1829
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Credit: Gleanings on gardens, chiefly respecting those of the ancient style in England / [Samuel Felton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gardens have long been famous, and the water and cascades much admired. Lake House, near Amesbury. A truly picturesque edifice, with bay windows, gables, yew-hedges, terraces, &c. in the genuine style of the last age. Oxton House, Devon. The grounds which had been laid out, at great expence, in the old style, are modernized. Leeswood, near Mold. The grounds occupy a fine slope, and were laid out by Switzer above a century ago, whose magnificent iron gateway still remains. Pentre, Pembrok. The house in a pleasant rural spot, embosomed in trees; the gardens in the old style, carefully kept up; the whole greatly admired. Powis Castle. The ascent by two immense terraces, rising one above another, connected by steps, and ornamented by vases, statues, and other antique remains. There were hanging gardens in imitation of those of St. Germains, com- posed by a series of terraces, connected by flights of steps cut out of the solid rock, with water-works, &c.* Hatton House, near Calder. A venerable ancient house: the grounds, till lately, exhibited one of the most perfect specimens of the old style in the county, or perhaps in * See Sir Uvedale Price’s remarks on Powis Castle, in his “sharp” but most candid and gentleman-like letter to Mr. Repton. The spirit of these pages, (87 and 88) with other rich ones, in Mr. Price’s writings on landscape gardening, lend (to borrow a quotation of his own) “ a fire E'en to the fullest peasant.
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