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might with peculiar propriety be restored in any 

 new grounds laid out for public use not, as has 

 been done in some tea-gardens on the Croydon Rail- 

 road, cutting up the picturesque wildness of the 

 beautiful Penge Wood by hideous right-angled walks 

 and other horrors too frightful to name but where 

 no natural scenery already exists, a place of pro- 

 menade and recreation may be much more expe- 

 ditiously, and, we think, more appropriately formed, 

 in the Continental and Old English style, by long 

 avenues, terraces, mounds, fountains, statues, monu- 

 ments, prospect - towers, labyrinths, and bowling- 

 greens, than by any attempt of a " picturesque " or 

 "natural" character. 



We have before us Lord Bacon's sketch for his 

 "prince-like" garden, and Sir William Temple's 

 description of his " perfect " one ; but though we 

 would recommend them, the first especially, to the 

 student of ancient gardens, and though Dr. Donne 

 considered the second " the sweetest place " he had 

 ever seen, yet neither of them is so well suited to 

 our present purpose of assisting the formation of 

 garden-making in the^ present age, as the descrip- 

 tion given in fanciful style in ' The Poetry of 

 Gardening.' * 



If we rightly understand the plan here described, 

 It is intended to combine the chief excellences of 



* [In place of the extract given in the Quarterly, we have appended 

 the whole Essay on ' The Poetry of Gardening,' which appeared 

 originally in the Carthusian, as being generally difficult of access, 

 and appropriate on the whole to the subjects of this volume. The 

 passage immediately referred to above is from p. 100 to 106.] 



