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hints that must escape a person who in a few 

 days sketches out a pretty picture, but has not 

 had leisure to examine the details and relations 

 of every part. 



Truth, which, after the opposition given to most 

 revolutions, preponderates at last, will probably 

 not carry our style of garden into general use 

 on the Continent. The expense is only suited 

 to the opulence of a free country, where emula- 

 tion reigns among many independent particu- 

 lars. The keeping of our grounds is an obstacle, 

 as well as the cost of the first formation. A flat 

 country, like Holland, is incapable of land- 

 scape. In France and Italy the nobility do not 

 reside much, and make small expense at their 

 villas. I should think the little princes of 

 Germany, who spare no profusion on their 

 palaces and country-houses, most likely to be 

 our imitators ; especially as their country and 

 climate bears in many parts resemblance to 

 ours. In France, and still less in Italy, they 

 could with difficulty attain that verdure which 

 the humidity of our clime bestows as the 

 groundwork of our improvements. As great 

 an obstacle in France is the embargo laid on 

 the growth of their trees : as after a certain age, 

 when they would rise to bulk, they are liable to 

 be marked by the crown's surveyors as royal 

 timber, it is a curiosity to see an old tree. A 



