126 GARDEN-CRAFT. 



To know truly how to lay out a garden " After a 

 more Grand and Rural Manner than has been done 

 before" you cannot do better than get Batty Lang- 

 ley's " New Principles of Gardening," and among 

 other things you have rules whereby you may con- 

 coct natural extravagances, how you shall prime 

 prospects, make landscapes that are pictures of 

 nothing and very like ; how to copy hills, valleys, 

 dales, purling streams, rocks, ruins, grottoes, pre- 

 cipices, amphitheatres, &c. 



The writings of Gilpin and Price were effective 

 in undermining Kent's School ; they helped to check 

 the rage for destroying avenues and terraces, and 

 insisted upon the propriety of uniting a country- 

 house with the surrounding scenery by architectural 

 appendages. The leakage from the ranks of Kent's 

 School was not all towards the Picturesque School, 

 but to what Loudon terms Repton's School, which 

 may be considered as combining all that was ex- 

 cellent in what had gone before. 



Following upon these phases is one that is oddly 

 called the " Gardenesquc" Style, the leading feature 

 of which is that it illustrates the beauty of trees, and 

 other plants individually ; in short, it is the speci- 

 men style. According to the practice cf all previ- 

 ous phases of modern gardening, trees, shrubs, and 

 flowers were indiscriminately mixed and crowded to- 

 gether, in shrubberies or other plantations. Accord- 

 ing to the Gardenesque School, all the trees and 

 shrubs are arranged to suit their kinds and dimen- 

 sions, and to display them to advantage. The ablest 



