Appendages to a Palace.-When the artificial but magnificent style of geometric gardening of Le Notre was changed to the more natural style of landscape gardening, it often happened that too little respect was paid to the costly appendages of English palaces; for, although near the small houses of country gentlemen, the barns, and rick-yards, and kitchen gardens might give way to the shaven lawn in the front of such houses; yet, to place a palace in the middle of a grass field, was one of those excesses of innovation to which all kinds of reform are ever liable. Example: Longleat.-The first object of improvement at Longleat, within the department of ART, should be to restore its architectural importance, to increase its greatness, by spreading its influence; but this requires some caution. The stables and the offices should form parts of one great whole; but if they be too much extended, or too rich in design, they will counteract this effect.
