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ferred to the other. But if, by the term art, no, 

 more is meant than merely design, the dispute is at 

 an end ;, choice, arrangement, composition, improve- 

 ment, and preservation, are so many symptoms of 

 art, which may occasionally appear in several parts 

 of a garden, but ought to be displayed without re- 

 serve near the home: nothing there should seem, 

 neglected ; it is a scene of the most cultivated nature: 

 it ought to be enriched, it ought to be adorned ; and 

 design may be avowed in the plan, and expence in 

 the execution. Even regularity is not excluded : a 

 capital structure may extend its influence beyond its 

 walls ; but this power should be exercised only over 

 its immediate appendages. Works of sculpture are 

 not, like buildings, objects familiar in scenes of culti- 

 vated nature ; but vases, statues, and termini, are 

 usual appendages to a considerable edifice : as such, 

 they may attend the mansion, and trespass a little 

 upon the garden, provided they are not carried so 

 far into it as to lose their connection with the struc- 

 ture." 



SECTION xn. 



OF PRUNING. 

 1. OF WALL TREES. 



this " master work of gardening" it has been 

 said, " that gentlemen prune too little, and gardeners 

 too much ;" these extremes are to be avoided, as 



