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inch boues, ons of wood or stick ashes, one of horse droppings, 

 and half a ba3h6l of soot. This compost may be laid all over 

 the border to the depth ot o or t inohoa, and forked sliphtly in, 

 taking oare not to injure the roots. 



became one ot the chief occnpations of his life. Shortly after- 

 wards he visited Italy, principally on account ot his health ; 

 and here he seems to have formed the taste for the fine arts, 

 and especially for the productions ot the Greek sculptors. 



Next season be careful with firing and airing, never allow I which was his most prominent characteristic. Subsequently 

 the roots to be too dry while the fruit is swelling. Guard ! to his father's death he inherited the large estate of Downton, 

 against a stagnant atmosphere, as the Vine does not delight I near Ludlow, from his grandfather, on which, after his return 



in an atmosphere overcharged with moisturs, neither in one 

 too dry. To this pay particular attention. Throe or tour times 

 before the fruit sliows signs of colouring give good aoakings of 

 liquid manure. When colouring commences ksep-up the re- 

 quired heat and never allow the houses to be kept close, but 

 allow a little air at top 

 and bottom (according to 

 the state of the weather), 

 night and day. If these 

 instructions are attended 

 to I am certain that Lady 

 Downe's will be grown in 

 a satisfactory manner pro- 

 vided the border is good. 



In regard to White 

 Frontignan my opinion 

 is, that it should not be 

 rooted out, but inarched 

 with Buckland's Sweet- 

 water, which is a Grape 

 that will give satisfaction. 

 — A Gbape-Gkower. 



[The practice here de- 

 tailed is from one who 

 has won a foremost place 

 amongst British Grape- 

 growers. — Eds 1 



from Italy, he built a mansion, and he devoted much time to 

 improving and ornamenting his grounds. In 1780 he was 

 elected to serve in Parliament for the borough of Leominster, 

 and in the following Parliament of 17S4 for the borough of 

 Ludlow, for which he continued to sit until the year 1800, 

 when he retired from Par- 

 liament. While a mem- 

 ber of the House of Com- 

 mons he acted with Jlr. 

 Fox, but he never took 

 any part in debate, nor 

 did ho ever interest him- 

 self about politics. In 

 1814 he was appointed a 

 Trustee of the British 

 Museum, as the repre- 

 sentative of the Townley 

 family. 



Early in his lite he 

 commenced the formation 

 ot a collection ot antiques 

 and other works of art, 

 to which his large fortune 

 enabled him to make con- 

 stant additions. It con- 

 sisted principally of an- 

 cient broEzes and Greek 

 coins ; and it was pre- 

 served in his London 

 house in Soho Square, 

 which contained a large 

 room fitted-up for the 

 purpose. He bequeathed 

 his collection (the value 

 of which was estimated at 

 £."iO,00OJ, to the British 

 Museum. He had origi- 

 nally intended to be- 

 queath it to the Eoyal 

 Academy. The bill legal- 

 ising the acceptance ot 

 this collection by the 

 Trustees of the British 

 Museum received the 

 Boyal Assent on the 17th 

 ot June, 1824. Mr. Knight 

 died in his house in Lon- 

 don on the 24th ot April, 

 1824, and he was buried 

 at Wormesley church, 

 in Herefordshire, where 

 there is a monument to 

 his memory, with a Latin 

 epitaph written by Dr. 

 Cornwall, Bishop of Worcester. In 1704 he published the 

 " Landscape," a didactic poem in three books, addressed to 

 Uvedale Price, Esq. ' This poem contains many precepts, marked 

 by sound judgment and good taste, on the subject to which it 

 relates. It appears from the preface to Mr. Price's " Essay on 

 the Picturesque" (published in 1794), that Mr. Knight pro- 

 posed to Mr. Price that the papers written by tho latter on rural 

 improvement should be published with his poem ot the " Land- 

 scape," in the same manner Sir J. Reynolds's notes were pub- 

 lished with Mr. Mason's " Du Freanoy ;" but that the proposal 

 came too late to enable Mr. Price to accept it. 



Deprecating the formal style ot laying-out the grounds 

 around a mansion, Mr. Knight describes it as the style which 

 "bade the Btream 'twixt banks clo-^e-shaved to glide ; 

 B:ini8hed the thictetn of UiRh-boweriiig wood, 

 Which hung reflet-ttd o'er the glassy flood. 

 Dear peaceful Bcenes, that now prevail no more, 

 Your losa shall every weeping muse deplore ! " 



BlCHABD PAYNE KNIGHT. 



EAELY WBITEKS 



ON ENGLISH 



GARDENING. 



No. 25. 

 laCHAED PAYNE KNIOHT. 



Havinii written in a re- 

 cent Journal ot Humphry 

 Repton, we may now re- 

 cord a few observations 

 on the gentleman who ad- 

 vanced still further to- 

 wards copying nature in 

 garden designing. 



After studying the writ- 

 ings of the several parti- 

 sans wn have been able to 

 draw but one conclusion, 

 which is, that the prin- 

 ciples ot Knight and Price 

 are correct it impartially 

 considered, and have been 

 acted upon by the general 

 consent of modern de- 

 signers ; nor can there be a greater proof of this position than 

 that in his maturer practice Kepton acted upon them him- 

 self. They differed in no one point ot importance, that we 

 have been able to discover, as to what constitutes beautiful 

 points in a landscape : ot course they agreed that such should 

 ije imitated ; and we have read not one passage in any of their 

 writings which will warrant the conclusion that, if assembled 

 together, there would have been a dissentient voice to the ob- 

 servation of Price, that regular beauty and utility must not be 

 neglected in the pursuit of the picturesque, tor that would be 

 opposed to the dictates ot common sense. 



Richard Payne I'Cnight was the eldest son of the Reverend 

 Thomas Knight, ot Wormesley Grange, in the county ot Here- 

 ford, and was born in 17.^0. He was a weak and sickly child, 

 and his father did not send him to school , or Buffer him to learn 

 either Greek or Latin at home. Soon after his father's death, 

 which took place in 17G4, ho was sent to a grammar school in 

 the neighbourhood, where he made a very rapid progress in 

 the Latin language. After leaving school he did not go to a I 



university, but at the age of eighteen he commenced the study Fossil PLANis.—The large number of fossil plants brought 

 of Greek, which ho pursued with great diligence, and which 1 home from Greenland and Spitzbergen by the two Swedish ex- 



