The Pleasure-Ground Scenery in the west of Scotland, more especially near the mansions, is in general very unsatisfactory; partly, we freely admit, from that absence of high keeping which we have found prevalent, and without which, in our opinion, no place is worth looking at; but chiefly from what we think defects in the arrangement. According to our notions of comfort and luxury, the most highly polished scenery, and the finest display of flowers, should always be near the house, and even close to it, on that side which is the least seen from, or connected with, the entrance front. This principle, we think, should be adopted, whether the house be a cottage, a villa, a mansion, or a palace. But, in many places, we have found very little difference in the objects and style of arrangement between the scenery connected with the entrance front and that of the other fronts; the flowers and shrubs, which we would have displayed on the drawing-room front, being placed at a distance from the house, in a flower-garden or shrubbery.
