Harmonious union of buildings and scenery

The harmonious union of buildings and scenery, is a point of taste that appears to be but little understood in any country; and mainly, we believe, because the architect and the landscape painter are seldom combined in the same person, or are seldom consulted together. It is for this reason that we so rarely see a country residence, or cottage and its grounds, making such a composition as a landscape painter would choose for his pencil. But it does not seem difficult, with a slight recurrence to the leading principle of unity of expression, to suggest a mode of immediately deciding which style of building is best adapted to harmonize with a certain kind of scenery.