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Title: The art of landscape gardening
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 Nolen, John, 1869-1937 American Society of Landscape Architects
Subjects: Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin Company, Riverside Press)
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as the ruins of Bayham Abbey aregenerally known to those who frequent TunbridgeWells, it is necessary to premise that the situationproposed for a new house is very different from thatof the abbey. No place concerning which I have had the honourto be consulted possesses greater variety of water, withsuch difference of character as seldom occurs withinthe limits of the same estate. The water near theabbey, now intersecting the meadow in various chan-nels, should be brought together into one river, wind-ing through the valley in a natural course : this maybe so managed as to drain the land while it improvesthe scenery ; and I suppose the whole of this valleyto be a more highly dressed lawn, fed by sheep andcattle, but without deer. Above this natural division the water will assumea bolder character ; that of a lake or a broad river, fillingthe entire bottom of the valley, between two woodedshores, and dashing the foot of that steep bank onwhich the mansion is proposed to be erected. This
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Theory and Practice 209 valley is so formed by nature that an inconsiderabledam will cause a lake or rather broad river of greatapparent extent: for when 1 describe water, I neverestimate its effects by the number of acres it may cover,but by its form, its continuity, and the facility withwhich its termination is concealed. Where a place is rather to be formed than improved,that is, where no mansion already exists, the choiceof situation for the house will in some measure dependon the purpose for which it is intended and the char-acter it ought to assume : thus a mansion, a villa, anda sporting-seat require very different adaptation of thesame principles, if not a variation in the principlesthemselves. The purpose for which the house at Bay-ham is intended must decide its character: it is notto be considered as a small villa, liable to change itsproprietor, as good or ill success prevails, but as theestablished mansion of an English noblemans family.Its character, therefore, should be

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