Landscape (iarden ing 



of a human figure, or in painting, to represent that of a 

 tree: the skill of the artist, in effecting an imitation suc- 

 cessfully, being sufficient to excite the astonishment and 

 admiration of those who had not yet made such advances as to 

 enable them to appreciate the superior beauty of expression. 



Landscape Gardening is, indeed, only a modern word, 

 first coined, we believe, by Shenstone. 



The most distinguished English landscape gardeners of 

 recent date, are the late Humphrey Repton, who died in 

 1818; and since him John Claudius London * better known 

 in this country, as the celebrated gardening author. Rep- 

 ton's taste in Landscape Gardening was cultivated and 

 elegant, and many of the finest parks and pleasure grounds 

 of England, at the present day, bear witness to the skill and 

 harmony of his designs. His published works are full of 

 instructive hints, and at Cobham Hall, one of the finest 

 seats in Britain, is an inscription to his memory, by Lord 

 Darnley. 



Mr. London's writings and labors in tasteful gardening, 

 are too well known, to render it necessary that we should 

 do more than allude to them here. Much of what is known 

 of the art in this country undoubtedly is, more or less 

 directly, to be referred to the influence of his published 

 works. Although he is, as it seems to us, somewhat defi- 

 cient as an artist in imagination, no previous author ever 

 deduced, so clearly, sound artistical principles in Landscape 

 Gardening and Rural Architecture; and fitness, good sense, 

 and beauty, are combined with much unity of feeling in all 

 his works. 



* Replon was easily the greatest landscape gardener of his day. He 

 carried out extensive works in England and his writings on the subject 

 were fresh, vigorous and permanently valuable. Of these there were 

 various editions, one of the best under the title of "Landscape Garden- 

 ing," having been edited by .1. C. Loudon in 1840. An abridged edition 

 has been more recently published in America, edited by Mr. John Nolen. 

 ("The Art of Landscape Gardening," Boston, 1908.) The cyclopedic 

 works of Loudon had some vogue in America in their day, but have long 

 since been completely superseded by the indigenous literature of gar- 

 dening. -- F. A. W. 



