114 GARDEX-CRAFT. 



Upon '■ Forest Scener}/' well illustrated. This work- 

 is in eight volumes, in part published in 17S2, and 

 it consists mainly in an account of the author's tours 

 in ever}- part of Great Britain, with a running com- 

 mentar}- on the beauties of the scenerj-. and a 

 description of the important countn,- seats he passed 

 on the way. Price helped by his writings to stay 

 the rage for destropng avenues and terraces, and 

 we note that he is fully alive ro the necessit)- of 

 uniting a countr)--house with the surrounding scener\- 

 by architectural adjuncts. 



The taste for picturesque gardening was doubt- 

 less helped by the growing taste for landscape paint- 

 ing, exhibited in the works of the school of Wilson 

 and Gainsborough, and in the pastoral writings of 

 Thomson, Crabbe, Cowper. and Gray. It would 

 farther be accelerated, as we suggested at the outset 

 of this chapter, by the large importation of foreign 

 plants and shrubs now going on. 



WTiat is known as the Picturesque School soon 

 had for its main exponent Repton. He was a genius 

 in his way — a bom gardener, '~' able and thoughtful in 

 his treatments, and distinguished among his fellows 

 by a broad and comprehensive grasp of the whole 

 character and surroundings of a site, in reference to 

 the general section of the land, the st\le of the house 

 to which his garden was allied, and the objects for 

 which it was to be used. The sterling quality of his 



* Loudon calli this School '^ Repton's," the ^ Gardenesque'^ School, 

 115 diaracteristic feature being "the display trfthe beauty of trees and 

 other plants indinnduallyr 



