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142 



and appropriated to the use and pi 



of man : it is, or 



ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art with such products 

 as are not natural to this country, and consequently it must be 

 artificial in its treatment, and may, without impropriety, be so 

 in its appearance; yet there is so much of littleness in Art, when 

 compared with Nature, that they cannot well 



blend 



it 



therefore to be wished, that the exterior of a garden should 



be made to assimilate with Park Scenery, or the Landscap 

 Nature; the interior may then be laid out with all 



of 



contrast, and 



e variety, 

 whim, that can produce pleasing objects to 



the eye, however ill adapted as studies for a picture 



If my pencil has given inadequate representations of scenes 



not 



yet 



istmg, I may plead in my excuse that 



am not a 



painter; and if I were, my subjects could not be painted 



they may 



yet 



(better than mere words) to realize and bring 



before the eyes of others those ideas which have suggested them 

 selves to my own imagination. 





Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures 

 Quam qua* sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus. 



OF ANCIENT GARDENING 



to 



It fortunately happens at Ashrid 



e dedicated to Gard 



both to the east and to th 



& 



en and Pleasure-Ground 



that the area proposed 



bounded 



west by a straight line of lofty trees 



these give a character of antiquity and grandeur to th 



prove lt to have existed before serpentine lines were 



9 



3 site, and 



introduced. 



