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tory of the changes that have passed over English 

 gardens was given, in his usual happy manner, by 

 Sir Walter Scott, which precludes the necessity of 

 more than a passing reference to the same subject. 

 London and Wise were among the earliest innovators 

 on the old Dutch school in England, and received 

 the high praise of Addision in the ' Spectator,' for 

 the introduction of a more natural manner in Ken- 

 sington Gardens, then newly laid out. Bridgeman 

 followed, laying the axe to the root of many a ver- 

 durous peacock and lion of Lincoln-green. Kent, 

 the inventor of the Ha-ha, broke through the visible 

 and formal boundary, and confounded the distinction 

 between the garden and the park. Brown, of " capa- 

 bility " memory, succeeded, with his round clumps, 

 boundary belts, semi-natural rivers, extensive lakes, 

 broad green drives, with the everlasting portico sum- 

 mer-house at the end. Castle Howard, Blenheim, 

 and Stowe, were the great achievements of these 

 times ; while the bard of the Leasowes was creating 

 his sentimental farm, " rearing," says Disraeli, 

 " hazels and hawthorns, opening vistas, and winding 

 waters," 



" And, having shown them where to stray, 

 Threw little pebbles in their way ;" 



displaying according to the English rhymes of a 

 noble foreigner who raised a "plain stone" to the 

 memory of " Shenstone" " a mind n&tural," in 

 laying out "Arcadian greens rural."* 



* Dr. Johnson, who, we think, used to boast either that he did or 

 did not (and it is much the same) know a cabbage from a cabbage- 



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