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farm, and into the forest or savage garden. 

 Kent, as I have shown, invented or established 

 the first sort. Mr. Philip Southcote founded 

 the second, or ferme orne> of which is a very 

 just description in the author I have been quot- 

 ing. The third I think he has not enough dis- 

 tinguished. I mean that kind of Alpine scene, 

 composed almost wholly of pines and firs, a few 

 birch, and such trees as assimilate with a sav- 

 age and mountainous country. Mr. Charles 

 Hamilton, at Pain's Hill, in my opinion has 

 given a perfect example of this mode in the ut- 

 itnost boundary of his garden. All is great and 

 foreign and rude ; the walks seem not designed, 

 but cut through the wood of pines ; and the 

 istyle of the whole is so grand, and conducted 

 with so serious an air of wild and uncultivated 

 extent, that when you look down on this seem- 

 ing forest you are amazed to find it contain a 

 very few acres. In general, except as a screen 

 to conceal some deformity, or as a shelter in 

 winter, I am not fond of total plantations of 

 evergreens. Firs in particular form a very un- 

 graceful summit, all broken into angles. 



Sir Henry Bnglefield was one of the first im- 

 provers on the new style, and selected with 

 singular taste that chief beauty of all gardens 

 prospect and fortunate points of view. We tire 

 of all the painter's art when it wants these 



