Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon].
- Thomas Whately
- Date:
- 1777
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3173 ] than {uch a fpace fo broken, if the extent be moderate, and the boundary beautiful. As much wood is effential:'to the character, a {pot may eafily be found, where turrets rifing above the covert, or fome arches feen within jt, may have the tefemblance of a caftle or an abbey; the partial concealment is almoft. ne- ceffary to both; for to accord with the age, the buildings muft feem to be entire; the ruins of them belong to later days: the difguife is however advantageous to them as objeéts; none can be imagined more picturefque, than a tower bofomed in trees, or a cloyfter appearing be- tween the {tems and the branches. But the fuperftitions of the times furnifh other objeéts, which are more within compafs; hermitages were then real; folitary chapels were common; many of the fprings of the country being deem- ed holy wells, were diftinguifhed by little Go- thic domes built over thems and every hamlet had its crofs; even this, when perfect, fet on a little ruftic pillar, and that raifed upon a bafe- of circular fteps, may in fome feenes be con- fiderable: if a fituation can be found for a Maypole, whence it would not obtrude itfelf on every view, that alfo might not be improper; and an ancient church, however unwelcome it may be, when it breaks into the defign of a -park or a garden, in fuch a. farm as this would ote be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30505963_0187.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
