PLANTING. 97 



The author of the Planter's Guide says, 



* It is undeniably true, that there was great 

 ' formality in the endless dotted clumps of 

 ' Brown and his followers, which are long 

 ' since exploded. Price alleged, with great 

 ' severity and some truth, that a recipe could 

 ' be given for making a place any where by 



* Brown's system ; because you had only to 

 ' take a belt with a walk in it, a few round 

 ' clumps, and a formal piece of water, and 

 ' the object was effected. But as to the cir- 

 ' cular and oval clumps, as fashion always 

 ' runs into extremes, it has now given us 

 •' something greatly worse in their stead. 



" It would have been nothing, after Brown 



* (according to Price's witty remark) had 

 ' changed Quadr^ata Rotundis, if the profes- 



* sors of the present school had again sub- 



* stituted Rotunda Quadratis, and restored the 

 ' rectangular figures of a former day. But 

 ' instead of this, our present landscape gar- 

 ' deners have made a merit, and are regularly 

 ' vain of disfiguring their most beautiful sub- 

 'jects with clumps and plantations, and 

 ' even approaches, in the most zigzag and 



grotesque figures, which are ten times more 

 hideous and unpicturesque than the worst 



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