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disgust, whether it be a room covered with the finest green
baize, or a lawn kept with the most exquisite verdure; we look
for carpets in one, and flowers in the other. If in its unfur-
nished state there chance to be a looking-glass without a frame,
it can only reflect the bare walls; and in like manner a pool of
water, without surrounding plantations or other features, re-
'flects only the nakedness of the scene.
This similitude might be extended to all the articles of fur-
niture for use or ornament required in an apartment, comparing
them with the seats and buildings and sculpture appropriate to
a garden.
Thus the Pleasure Ground at Woburn requires to be en-
riched and furnished like its Palace, where good taste is-every
where conspicuous.
It is not by the breadth or length of the walk that Greatness
of Character in Garden Scenery can ever be supported; it is
rather by its diversity, and the succession of interesting objects.
In this part of a great place, we may venture to extract pleasure
from Variety, from Contrast, and even from Novelty, without
endangering the character of Greatness.
THE GARDEN.
In the middle of the last century almost every mansion in.
the kingdom had its Garden, surrounded by walls, in the front
of the house. To improve the landscape from the windows,