212 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



effective method. There is but one fault in this garden, which 

 is its being placed near the house, where there should be nothing 

 but lawn and scattered trees when viewed from the Chateau. — 

 Travels in Frafice, 1787-9. 



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SIR 1780, Translated Pausamas : his various works on the Picturesque^ Beauty 



UVEDALE and Landscape were collected in one vohune by Sir T. D. Lauder in 1842. 



PRICE . . 



1747-1829). J MAY perhaps have spoken more feelmgly on this subject, from 



■*■ having done myself what I so condemn in others — destroyed 



an old-fashioned garden. . . . 



I remember, that even this garden (so infinitely inferior to those 

 of Italy) had an air of decoration, and of gaiety, arising from that 

 decoration — un air pare — a distinction from mere unimbellished 

 nature, which, whatever the advocates for extreme simplicity may 

 allege, is surely essential to an ornamented garden : all the beauties 

 of undulating ground, of shrubs, and of verdure are to be found 

 in places where no art has ever been employed, and consequently 

 cannot bestow a distinction which they do not possess. . . . 



Among other circumstances, I have a strong recollection of a 

 raised terrace, seen sideways from that in front of the house, in 

 the middle of which was a flight of steps with its iron rails, and 

 an arched recess below it backed by a wood : these steps con- 

 ducted you from the terrace to a lower compartment, where there 

 was a mixture of fruit-trees, shrubs, and statues, disposed, indeed, 

 with some formality, yet which formed a dressed foreground to 

 the woods ; and with a little alteration would have richly and 

 happily blended with the general landscape. . . . 



I regret extremely, not only the compartment I have just 

 mentioned, but another garden immediately beyond it : and I 

 cannot forget the sort of curiosity and surprise that was excited 

 after a short absence, even in me to whom it was familiar, by the 

 simple and common circumstance of a door that led from the 

 first compartment to the second, and the pleasure I always 

 experienced on entering that inner and more secluded garden. 

 There was nothing, however, in the garden itself to excite any 



