Sources of Pleasure in Landscape Gardening 59 



equal distances, and frequently of different kinds 

 in alternate order. 



These first four heads may be considered as generally 

 adverse to picturesque beauty, yet they are not, there- 

 fore, to be discarded. There are situations in which the 

 ancient style of gardening is very properly preserved : 

 witness the academic groves and classic walks in our 

 universities; and I should doubt the taste of any im- 

 prover, who could despise the congruity, the utility, the 

 order, and the symmetry of the small garden at Trinity 

 College, Oxford, because the clipped hedges and straight 

 walks would not look well in a picture. 



V. Picturesque Effect. This head, which has been 

 so fully and ably considered by Mr. Price, furnishes 

 the gardener with breadth of light and shade, forms of 

 groups, outline, colouring, balance of composition, and 

 occasional advantage from roughness and decay, the 

 effect of time and age. 



VI. Intricacy. A word frequently used by me in my 

 Red Books, which Mr. Price has very correctly de- 

 fined to be "that disposition of objects, which, by a par- 

 tial and uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes 

 curiosity." 



VII. Simplicity; or that disposition of objects which, 

 without exposing all of them equally to view at once, 

 may lead the eye to each by an easy gradation, without 

 flutter, confusion, or perplexity. 



VIII. Variety. This may be gratified by natural 

 landscape, in a thousand ways that painting cannot 

 imitate; since it is observed of the best painters' works 

 that there is a sameness in their compositions, and even 

 their trees are all of one general kind, while the variety 

 of nature's productions is endless, and ought to be duly 

 studied. 



