THE necessity of uniting architecture and landscape-gardening is so strongly elucidated in the Red Book of BAYHAM, that I gladly avail myself of the permission of its noble possessor to insert the following observations; but as the ruins of Bayham Abbey are generally known to those who frequent Tunbridge Wells, it is necessary to premise that the situation proposed for a new house is very different from that of the Abbey. No place, concerning which I have had the honour to be consulted, possesses greater variety of water, with such difference of character as seldom occurs within the limits of the same estate. The water near the Abbey, now intersecting the meadow in various channels, should be brought together into one river, winding through the valley in a natural course: this may be so managed as to drain the land while it improves the scenery; and I suppose the whole of this valley to be a more highly dressed lawn, fed by sheep and cattle, but without deer.
