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thom, placed in the fore-ground, engrosses too much of the landscape, and
is neither sufficiently
'pleasing in its shape, nor natural in its situation, to deserve the place
it holds, as the leading feature
of the scene.
' The management of the view to the north will further serve to elucidate
another general prin-
cipl6 in gardening, viz. that although we do not require a strict symmetry
in the two sides of the land-
scape, yet there is a certain balance of composition,* without which the
eye is not perfectly satisfied.
' The two screens of wood beyond the pond may be varied and contrasted; that
to the west may
be left as a thick impenetrable mass of trees and underwood, while great
part of that to the east
should be converted into an open grove; thus destroying the formality, while
the balance of composi-
tion may still be preserved.
* The balance of composition in landscape, is a subject that requires elucidation
by drawings, which could not be introduced in this
volume, without increasing its bulk beyond the necessary limits. The subject
has been more fully treated in my Remarks on Holwood
in Kent, a seat of the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt; and Stoke, in Herefordshire,
a seat of the Hon. Edw. Foley.