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The application of this general observation 

 to landscape art, or to that branch of it which 

 has recently been well styled " landscape horti- 

 culture," is quite obvious, and with this analy- 

 sis of the causes of such differences in taste it is 

 easy to see how the natural system, after having 

 received such an impetus under Kent and Wai- 

 pole, should have almost entirely given place to 

 its rival for very many years, and almost to this 

 very day. 



The mistake should not be made, however, by 

 the adherents of one school of art of utterly con- 

 demning the other. However commonplace 

 this caution may appear as to music, or, as Mr. 

 Hamerton applies it, to painting, it is really 

 most true and necessary when applied to the 

 treatment of nature herself. There are elements 

 of truth in the ideas of both schools which in- 

 telligent amateurs and professional men should 

 cherish and utilize whenever and wherever cir- 

 cumstances will permit. 



It is true that the refinements and frivolities 

 of the Dutch and Italian gardeners led to the 

 inevitable reaction to simpler methods, to a 



