PLANTING. 105 



to admit of no exception ; and is at least as 

 severe as any thing the writer of it can find 

 in Price, whose severity he censures. Where 

 the author of the Planter's Guide has met 

 with these grotesque figures, these hideous 

 and unpiduresque productions, he has not told 

 us ; nor have I, in a tolerably extensive range 

 of observation, discovered a single example 

 of them. 



The conclusion of this long note, as tran- 

 scribed from the Planter's Guide, has, I con- 

 fess, puzzled me extremely in my attempt to 

 discover any support it affords to the object 

 of the note itself, — the propriety of circles 

 and ovals as applied to plantations. The 

 passage runs thus : — 



" It is to be hoped that there is discern- 

 " ment enough in our present race of artists 

 " to see the propriety of adopting or restor- 

 " ing those fine figures, the oval and the 

 " circle, as certainly the best for temporary 

 " and large detached masses of wood. And 

 " now that all controversy between hostile 

 " systems is at an end, I trust that the En- 

 *' glish Garden, distinguished by simplicity 

 " and freedom, will henceforth be under no 

 " law but that of Nature, improved and 



