XVI PREFACE. 



but that which painting can, and sculpture 

 cannot express. Tliis, in reahty, forms a 

 very just distinction between the powers of 

 the only two arts imitative of visible ob- 

 jects ; and the etymology of the word, as I 

 have accounted for it, instead of contra- 

 dicting, sanctions the use I have made of 

 it, and the distinction I have given to the 

 character. 



The subject of modern Gardening had 

 been so fully discussed in my first Essay, 

 and in my Letter to Mr. Repton, that little 

 remained to be said : in this second volume, 

 therefore, I have seldom done more, than 

 make some occasional remarks upon it. It 

 may, indeed, be thought by many, that I 

 had already bestowed more time upon it, 

 than a particular mode of gardening in this 

 country would justify. On this, not im- 

 probable, supposition, I must say in my 

 defence, and in some measure, in de- 



