INTRODUCTION. V!l 



in practical information. The author of 

 " Design in Gardening;"* accuses the " Ob- 

 ** servations on Modern Gardening" of this 

 omission ; and though I have carefully read 

 both the works, I must confess myself to have 

 found as little of practical information in the 

 former as in the latter author, and far less of 

 interest and taste. 



It will be remembered, that the authors 

 I mention were none of them professional 

 improvers. Their observations, therefore, 

 however interesting they may be to those 

 who are conversant with the subject, will be 

 deficient in that general utility and practical 

 information which are the object of the follow- 

 ing pages ; the merit of which, if they have 

 any, will consist in opening the general prin- 

 ciples of taste to those who have not studied 

 the subject ; and in thus enabling them to ap- 

 preciate each the character of his own place, 

 and the different schemes that may be sug- 

 gested for its improvement, will afford a 

 source of increasing variety and delight. 



Agreeing fully with Sir Uvedale Price in 

 his estimates of the requisites necessary to 

 form a just taste in Landscape Gardening, I 



* Essay on Design in Gardening, p. l49. 



