CHAPTER IX 



EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EXTREMES 





XTREMES met in the eighteenth The rise and 



fall of 



century. English gardens (no romant;- 



. . ' cism. 



longer original creations or even 

 clever adaptations) had degenerated 

 into meaningless repetitions of 

 French and Dutch fashions. Con- 

 ventional plans were mimicked or 

 exaggerated until the formal manner became merely 

 an affected mannerism. Finally, nothing remaining but 

 the defects of the old system, a reaction resulted in its 

 entire destruction. On the ruins was created the Land- 

 scape Garden, in the strict meaning of the word no 

 garden at all, but a stretch of cultivated scenery. 



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