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reformation in the style of Gardening in France and England. 

 If to either, the palm for priority, I am constrained to think, 

 must be yielded to the former. Dufresnoy succeeded to Le 

 Notre in 1700, as director of the French Monarch's Gardens. 

 He constructed several Gardens in which natural beauties were 

 imitated, but his example was only admired by his countrymen 

 and not followed. Dufresnoy was a man of Taste and a Poet 

 of merit, and that his designs, or similar ones, were executed 

 before such constructions appeared in England, I am more inclin- 

 ed to believe, because Addison, in one of his excellent papers on 

 Imagination in the Spectator, (No 414) says, " English Gardens 

 are not so entertaining to the Fancy as those in France and 

 Italy, where we see a large extent of ground covered over with 

 an agreeable mixture of Garden and Forest, which represent 

 every where an artificial rudeness, much more charming than 

 that neatness and elegancy which we meet with in those of 

 our own country." Now Addison in the same Essay was 

 advocating Landscape Gardening and attempted to exemplify 

 it at his seat, Bilton near Rugby. He had travelled in France 

 but a few years previously; he was a contemporary of Dufres- 

 noy ; and therefore is one of the best of authorities. 



The Essay of Addison above quoted, is dated June, 1712, 

 and is the first that ever appeared in which an imitation of 

 Nature is advocated as the basis of ornamental Gardening. 

 This was followed by another in the same work (No 477) To 

 this succeeded an Essay by Pope, dated September 1713, in 

 the Guardian (No 173) in which he most successfully ridicules 

 the practice of cutting Shrubs into monstrous forms. In two 

 years after he purchased his villa at Twickenham, and laid out 

 the garden in the style which he admired. la 1732 he pub- 

 lished his " Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington", 

 the first work in which any precise rules for Landscape 

 Gardening are laid down, though it is probable he learnt them 

 ftom. Bridgeman, the Garden Designer, and the nobleman to 



