8 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



this cliaracter: Addington Park, near Croydon, 

 is also a striking specimen of the Picturesque. 



The Rural comprehends a large portion of 

 the scenery of many counties in England. 

 Several very pleasing examples are to be 

 found in Surrey, which, as far as I have had 

 opportunities of judging, contains the highest 

 class of this description of country. Undis- 

 tinguished by any great features, its power of 

 pleasing depends principally upon its hedge- 

 row timber, producing the appearance of a 

 well wooded country, softening gradually into 

 a rich distance. Open commons here and 

 there give an interesting variety to the general 

 mass of cultivation ; though, in this point of 

 view, it is to be lamented that the increased 

 spirit of agriculture has much curtailed this 

 prominent feature of rural landscape. 



It will be evident to every observer of na- 

 ture, that these different characters are sub- 

 ject to various occasional combinations ; which, 

 nevertheless, though they may lessen, do not 

 destroy the distinction. The road between 

 Epsom and Dorking furnishes a striking ex- 

 ample of the union of the Rural with the 

 Beautiful in scenery : and it would be difficult 

 to name a drive of such pleasing interest, 



