1 82 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



themselves, that the knowledge of gardening made such hasty 

 advances. Lord Cobham, Lord Ila, and Mr Waller of Beacons- 

 field, were some of the first people of rank that promoted the 

 elegant science of ornamenting without despising the superintend- 

 ence of the kitchen quarters and fruit walls. — The Natural History 

 of Selborne. {Letter LXXIX. ) ^ 



ADAM -^HE circumstances of gardeners, generally mean, and always 

 ^72^^700) moderate, may satisfy us that their great ingenuity is not 



commonly over-recompenced. Their delightful art is practised 

 by so many rich people for amusement, that little advantage is 

 to be made by those who practise it for profit ; because the 

 persons who should naturally be their best customers, supply 

 themselves with all their most precious productions. — The 

 Nature afid Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 



— A/WV^ — 



WILLIAM Owner of a school at Cheain ; Rector of Boldre, near New Forest ; author of 

 GILPIN Lives of Bernard Gilpin, Cranmer, Wycliffe, and others; also of *■ Forest 

 (1724- 1 804). Scenery,^ ''Essay 07i Prints,^ and many vohwies on Picturesqtie Beauty and 

 Travels in the British Isles, from the year 1776, with his own illustrations ; 

 his name is generally joined with those of Uvedale Price and Payne Knight on 

 the * Picturesque ' side of the Cont^-oversy with the ' Improvers ' and Land- 

 scape Gardeners, * Capability ' Brown and ' Amenity ' Repton. 



FROM clumps we naturally proceed to Park scenery, which is 

 generally composed of combinations of clumps, interspersed 

 with lawns. ... As the park is an appendage of the house, it 

 follows that it should participate of its neatness and elegance. 

 Nature, in all her great walks of landscape, observes this accom- 

 modating rule. She seldom passes abruptly from one mode of 

 scenery to another, but generally connects different species of 

 landscape by some third species, which participates of both. 

 Thus, as the house is connected with the country through the 

 medium of the park, the park should partake of the neatness of 

 the one, and of the wildness of the other. As the park is a scene 

 either planted by art, or if naturally woody, artificially improved, 

 we expect a beauty and contrast in its clumps, which we do not 



