

M 



any years have elapsed since the production of a former Work, under 



the title of Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening ; 



during which, the Autho 



attention 



been called to such 



ariety of 



subjects, such interesting Scenery, and such novelty of expedients, that a 

 second volume under the former title might have been expected ; (the whole 



of two editions of that Work 

 very scarce). The contents of 



are 



tirely sold, and the volume is become 



present Volume, which 



new title, will be found neither to be 



p pears 



d 



a 



a continuation nor a contradiction 



of the former Observations ; but, from the subject's being elucidated by 



new and more beautiful examples, th 



e Author's former principles in the 



Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening will be confirmed. 



The following Fragments havi 



o 



ing been selected from more than four hun- 



dred different Rep 



MS 



occasional 



petition of the 



remark 



will unavoidably, though not frequently, occur ; and for this it is hoped, that 



ety and beauty of the subj 

 riking examples and elucid* 



ly compensate, by giving new and 



The Art of Landscape Gardening (which more peculiarly belongs to this 

 country) is the only Art which every one professes to understand, and even 





to practise, without having studied its Rudi 



unenls. 



No 



man supposes he 



some knowledge 



can paint a Landscape, or play on an instrument, without 



of Painting and Music; but every one thinks himself competent to lay out 



grounds, and sometimes to plan a House for himself, or to criticise on what 





