.") 1 Landscape (i 



\( has boon remarked, that the geometric slyle would 

 always be preferred in a new country, or in any country 

 where the amount of land under cultivation is much less 

 than thai covered with natural woods and forests; as the 

 inhabitants being surrounded by scenery abounding with 

 natural beauty, would always incline to lay out their gar- 

 dens and pleasure-grounds in regular forms, because the 

 distinct exhibition of art would give more pleasure by con- 

 trast, than the elegant imitation of beautiful nature. Thai 

 this is true as regards the mass of uncultivated minds, we 

 do not deny. But at the same lime we allirm that it evinces 

 a meagre taste, and a lower stale of the art, or a lower per- 

 ception of beauty in the individual who employs the geo- 

 metrical slyle in such cases. A person, whose place is 

 surrounded by inimitably grand or sublime scenery, would 

 undoubtedly fail to excite our admiration, by attempting a 

 fac-simile imitation of such scenery on the small scale of a 

 park or garden; but he is not, therefore, obliged to resort 

 to right-lined plantations and regular grass plots, to produce 

 something which shall be at once sufficiently different to 

 atlracl notice, and so beautiful as to command admiration. 

 All that il would be requisite for him to do in such a case, 

 would be to employ rare and foreign ornamental trees, as 

 for example, I he horse-chestnut and the linden, in situations 

 where the maple and the sycamore are the principal trees, 



elegant (lowering shrubs and beautiful creepers, instead 

 of sumacs and hazels, - - and to have his place kept in high 

 and polished order, instead of the tangled wildness of general 

 nature. 



On the contrary, were a person lo desire a residence 

 newly laid out and planted, in a district where all around 

 is iu a high stale of polished cultivation, as in the suburbs 

 of a city, a species of pleasure would result from the imita- 

 tion of scenery of a more spirited, natural character, as 

 the picturesque, in his grounds. His plantations are made 

 in irregular groups, composed chiefly of picturesque trees, as 

 the larch, etc. - his walks would lead through varied scenes, 

 sometimes bordered with groups of rocks overrun with 



