xxvi. 



GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 





AN OLD GARDEN SEAT. 



carefully disguising or hiding the boundary. It must 

 studiously conceal every interference of Art, however expen- 

 sive, by which scenery is improved, making the whole 

 appear the production of Nature only, and all objects of mere 

 convenience or comfort, if incapable of being made ornamental, 

 or of becoming proper parts of the general scenery, must be 

 removed or concealed. It may appear to many, and not 

 without reason, that this ideal was one of deception An 

 impression of sixe and extent was to be given where it did not 

 exist, and that which \\as the product of Art was to be made 

 to appear as if it were the work of Nature, while objects 

 which did not 

 fall into the 

 scheme of 

 Nature were 

 to be con- 

 cealed from 

 view. Hepton 

 frankly con- 

 fessed that 

 the principles 

 he had set 

 forth were 

 directly op- 

 p ii s e d to 

 those of the 

 older g a r - 

 den, which 

 may perhaps 

 be a sufficient 

 con dem na- 

 tion of them. 

 Yet m a n y 

 triumphs we re 

 achieved in 

 the natural 

 style, and the 

 work of Mr. 

 Southcote 

 a t Wo burn 



A STONE SEAT, DANBY. 



Farm, and the examples at Hagley, Hayes, and the 

 Leasowes became celebrated, though the work of the 

 Hon. Charles Hamilton at Pain's Hill in Surrey was one of 

 the finest examples of the landscape period, deserving to rank 

 with Brown's work at Blenheim, and it happily remains as an 

 illustration of a real success to this day. 



As we have said, there were many who recoiled from the 

 landscape style, and no one expressed the revulsion of fe ling 

 better than Richard Payne Knight in his " Analytical Enquiry 

 into the Principles of Taste," published in 1805. He remarked 

 that, in former times, the house, being surrounded by gardens 



as uniform as 

 itself, and 

 only seen 

 through 

 vistas at right 

 angles, every 

 visible accom- 

 paniment was 

 in union with 

 it, and the 

 systematic 

 regularity of 

 the whole 

 was discerni- 

 b I e from 

 every point 

 of sight ; but 

 when, accord- 

 ing to the new 

 fashion, all 

 around was 

 levelled and 

 thrown open, 

 the poor 

 square edifice 

 was exposed 

 alone, or with 

 the accom- 

 panimentonly 



