The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life RationallyLoudon, Mrs. (Jane)
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The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Loudon, Mrs. (Jane)
Cooking; Country life; Home economics
I think it very desirable that openings should be made in several
places through the mass of wood, to admit views of the distant scenery
from the drawingroom; as, for instance, if there is a church or a
tower, or any other object that would form a suitable termination to
a vista. In the reign of William and Mary, when the Dutch style of
gardening was fashionable, nothing was more common than long vistas of
the kind called _patte d'oie_, all springing in rays from one point,
and each terminating in some ornamental object, such as a temple,
an obelisk, or a statue. Some slight approximation to this style,
by cutting long vistas through your woods, might therefore be very
consistently introduced wherever a suitable occasion for it may occur.
In planting your _architectural garden_, you must observe that it
should have rather a different character from the small garden
in front of your sitting-room window. The architectural garden
should contain standard rose trees, almond trees, double-blossomed
peaches and cherries, the Chinese magnolia, or yulan tree, and other
showy-flowering trees, planted in company with arbutus, phillyrea,
Minorca box, and other evergreens of a similar character. In the
shrubbery, at each end of the garden, but not forming part of it, these
trees should be continued, and mixed with variegated hollies, the
different kinds of Cratæ'gus, and other trees that are ornamental, and
that never attain a large size.
I have already suggested that in various parts of the pleasure-grounds
advantage should be taken of any natural inequalities that may exist,
to form different scenes; and I have now only to add that advantage may
be taken of singular peculiarities, should you wish to form in your
grounds one of those arboretums which are now so fashionable.
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