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About the same time there was another whose 

 writings had even greater influence, as they 

 were of a more strictly professional character, 

 and consequently reached directly the men 

 whose business it was to direct the improve- 

 ment of estates. This was Humphrey Rep ton, 

 who in 1794 addressed a communication to Uve- 

 dale Price entitled "An Inquiry into the Change 

 of Taste in Landscape Gardening, ' ' being a dis- 

 cussion of the general principles involved, to- 

 gether with some practical observations. The 

 following year a more important work was pub- 

 lished by him entitled " Sketches and Hints in 

 Landscape Gardening." 



These and other writings of Repton had much 

 to do with the change of popular taste from the 

 extremes of the picturesque school, modifying 

 that style to what I/oudon calls " Repton's " or 

 the " Gardenesque " school, "the characteris- 

 tic feature of which is the display of the beauty 

 of trees and other plants INDIVIDUALLY." 



It would be interesting to follow the varying 

 fashions in gardening down to to-day, and to 

 give some account of the progress of the art in 



