98 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



" productions of their predecessors ! As a 

 " late powerful writer says, ' Their plant- 

 " ' ations, instead of presenting the regular or 

 " * rectilinear plan, exhibit nothing but a 

 " * number of broken lines, interrupted circles, 

 " ' and salient angles, which are as much at 

 " ' variance with Euclid as with nature. In 

 " * cases of enormity, they have been made 

 " ' to assume the form of pincushions, of 

 " ' hatches, of penny tarts, and of breeches 

 " ' displayed at old clothesmen's doors.' See 

 " Quarterly Review, No. 72. 



" In all this they tell you they are imitating 

 " nature! they seem truly to be of opinion, 

 *' that to change must be the same thing as 

 " to improve ; and that, in order to display the 

 " taste of Price and Knight, they have only 

 " to reprobate that of Brown and Repton. 

 " There is no man, whose taste has been 

 " formed on any correct model, that does not 

 " feel and acknowledge the beauty of those 

 " elegant forms — the oval, the circle, and the 

 <» cone — and who does not experience the 

 " pleasure of contemplating smooth and soft 

 " surfaces, every where marked by swelling 

 " undulations and gentle transitions. Such 

 " are the outlines constantly prevalent in all 



