Landscape Gardening 



CHAPTER I 

 HISTORICAL SKETCHES 



"L'un a nos yeux presente 

 D'un dessein regulier 1'ordonnancc imposante, 

 Pretc aux champs des beautes qu'ils nc connaissaient pas, 

 D'une pompe etrangere embellit leur appas, 

 Donne aux arbres des lois, aux ondes des entraves, 

 Et, despote orgueilleux, brille entoure d'esclaves; 

 Son air est moins riant et plus majestueux 

 L'autre, de la nature amant respectueux, 

 L'orne sans la farder, traite avec indulgence 

 Ses caprices charmants, sa noble negligence, 

 Sa marche irreguliere, et fait naitre avec art 

 Des beautes du desordre, et meme du hasard." 



DELILLE. 



"/^~\UR first, most endearing, and most sacred associa- 

 I 1 lions," says the amiable Mrs. Holland, " are con- 

 nected with gardens; our most simple and most 

 refined perceptions of beauty are combined with them." 

 And we may add to this, that Landscape Gardening, which 

 is an artistical combination of the beautiful in nature and 

 art- -an union of natural expression and harmonious culti- 

 vation - - is capable of affording us the highest and most in- 

 tellectual enjoyment to be found in any cares or pleasures 

 belonging to the soil. 



The development of the beautiful is the end and aim of 

 Landscape Gardening, as it is of all other fine arts. The 

 ancients sought to attain this by a studied and elegant 

 regularity of design in their gardens; the moderns, by the 

 creation or improvement of grounds which, though of lini- 



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