PLANTING. Ill 



in any of the natural woods I have visited in 

 Scotland, with a view to this question ; and I 

 am indeed mistaken, if the hand that has 

 laboured so successfully for the embellishment 

 of Nature in one particular line could have the 

 hardihood — I had almost said the sacrilege — 

 to insult her, thus enthroned, with a knot of 

 circular or oval plantation. Let him, after- 

 wards, behold in the late plantations in Rich- 

 mond Park an example of the tasteless system 

 he advocates — destitute of all variety — out 

 of harmony with all around it. 



A park, it will be allowed, is not a forest; 

 but the " genius loci " is equally entitled to 

 attention in our attempts at embellishing it : 

 nor do I see how the " easy and undulating 

 " line of boundary " can be produced by an 

 assemblage of convex forms, whose only 

 variety must arise from the difference of size 

 and position. 



Not to deprive the author of the Planter's 

 Guide of any support to his system of circles, 

 cones, and ovals, we will venture to examine 

 the opinions manifested in the Review of his 

 work ; for, though that masterly production 

 does not absolutely prescribe the forms we 

 are combating, yet I conceive it may appear 



