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the object of this art is merely to produce a fac-simile of 

 nature, that could not be distinguished from a wild scene. 

 But we contend that this principle may be fully attained 

 with either expression — the picturesque cottage being as 

 well a work of art as the classic villa ; its baskets, and 

 seats of rustic work, indicating the hand of man as well 

 as the marble vase and balustrade ; and a walk, sometimes 

 narrow and crooked, is as certainly recognised as man's 

 work, as one always regular and flowing. Foreign trees 

 of picturesque growth are as readily obtained as those of 

 beautiful forms. The recognition of art is, therefore, 

 always apparent in both modes. The evidences are 

 indeed stronger and more multiplied in the careful polish 

 of the Beautiful landscape,* and hence many prefer this 

 species of landscape, not, as it deserves to be preferred, 

 because it displays the most beautiful and perfect ideas in 

 its outlines, the forms of its trees, and all that enters into 

 its composition, but chiefly because it also is marked by 

 that careful polish, and that completeness, which imply 

 the expenditure of money, which they so well know how 

 to value. 



If we declare that the Beautiful is the more perfect 

 expression in landscape, we shall be called upon to explain 

 why the Picturesque is so much more attractive to many 

 minds. This, we conceive, is owing partly to the imper- 



* The beau ideal in Landscape Gardening, as a fine art, appears to us to be 

 embraced in the creation of scenery full of expression, as the beautiful or pic- 

 turesque, the materials of which are, to a certain extent, different from those in 

 wild nature, being composed of the floral and arboricultural riches of all climates, 

 as far as possible ; uniting in the same scene, a richness and a variety never to 

 be found in any one portion of nature ; — a scene characterized as a work of art, 

 by the variety of the materials, as foreign trees, plants, &c., and by the polish 

 and keeping of the grounds in the natural style, as distinctly as by the uniform 

 »nd sj-mmetrical arrangement in the ancient style. 



