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ill the fullest attention to these principles, Utility, 

 Proportion, and Unity, or harmony of parts to the 

 whole. (Repton, " Landscape Gardening," pp. 

 128-9.) 



The best advice one can give to a young gardener 

 is — 1^71010 your Repton. 



The writings of the new school of gardening, of 

 which Repton is a notable personage in its later 

 phase, are not, however, on a par with the writings 

 of the old traditional school, either as pleasant garden 

 literature, or in regard to broad human interest or 

 artistic quality. They are hard and critical, and 

 never lose the savour of the heated air of contro- 

 versy in which they were penned. Indeed, I can 

 think of no more sure and certain cure for a bad 

 attack of garden-mania — nothing that will sooner 

 wipe the bloom off your enjoyment of natural beauty 

 — than a course of reading from the Classics of Land- 

 scape-garden literature ! " I only sound the clarion," 

 said the urbane master-gardener of an earlier day, 

 "but I enter not into the battle." But these are at 

 one another's throats ! Who enters here must leave 

 his dreams of fine gardening behind, for he will find 

 himself in a chilly, disenchanted world, with nothing 

 more romantic to feed his imagination upon than 

 " Remarks on the genius of the late Mr. Brown," 

 Critical enquiries, Observations on taste, Difference 

 between landscape gardening and painting. Price 

 upon Repton, Repton upon Price, Repton upon 

 Knight, further answers to Messrs Price and Knight, 

 &c. But all this is desperately dull reading, hurt- 



