2 20 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



mistaken. And lastly, with respect to objects of convenience, 

 they were placed as near the house as possible : — the stables, the 

 barns, and the kitchen garden, were among the ornaments of a 

 place ; while the village, the alms house, the parish school, and 

 churchyard were not attempted to be concealed by the walls or 

 palisades that divided them from the Embellished pleasure ground. 

 — Sketches and Hifits on Landscape Gardenings ^ 794- 



Sources of pleasure in Landscape Gardejiing: — i. Conformity; 

 2, Utility; 3, Order; 4, Symmetry; 5, Picturesque Effect; 6, 

 Intricacy; 7, Simplicity; 8, Variety; 9, Novelty; 10, Contrast; 

 II, Continuity; 12, Association; 13, Grandeur; 14, Appropria- 

 tion ; 15, Animation. — Lbid. 



JOSEPH C CENTS are the souls of flowers : they may be even perceptible 

 JOUBERT O in the land of shadows. 



(1754-1824). 



The tulip is a flower without a soul ; but the rose and lily seem 

 to have one. 



We ought to gather nothing which grows in our cemeteries, and 

 to let even the grass in them enjoy a pious uselessness. 



We enjoy in gardening the pure delicacies of agriculture. 



Our gardens in Paris smell musty. I do not like these ever- 

 green trees. There is something of blackness in their greenery, 

 of coldness in their shade, something sharp, dry, and thorny in 

 their leafage. Besides, since they neither lose anything, nor have 

 anything to fear, they seem to me unfeeling, and hence have little 

 interest for me.^ 



When a regular building commands the garden which surrounds 

 it, it ought, so to speak, to radiate regularity, by throwing it round 

 itself to all distances, whence it can be easily seen. 



It is a centre, and the centre ought to be in harmony with all 

 points of the circumference, which is itself nothing but the 



^ ' I hate those trees that never lose their foliage : 

 They seem to have no sympathy with Nature : 

 Winter and Summer are alike to them.' 



W, S. Laiidor. 



