Landscape park entrances

Park Entrance.-The courts, or garden-gates, through which old mansions were approached, prevented the intrusion of improper persons, who were stopped by the porter of the gate: but since it has become a fashion to remove these, and to place the house, a naked, solitary, and isolated object, in the middle of a large park, or grass field, it is become necessary to remove the porter to the entrance of the park; and this is the origin of all that bad taste so often displayed in the entrance of parks.