Evolution of Dortfculture ; 



the imagination immediately runs them 

 over, and requires something else to 

 gratify her ; but in the wide fields of 

 nature, the sight wanders up and down 

 without confinement, and is fed with an 

 infinite variety of images, without any 

 certain stint or number. For this reason 

 we always find the poet in love with the 

 country life, where nature appears in the 

 greatest perfection, and furnishes out all 

 those scenes that are most apt to delight 

 the imagination." 



Pope, soon after, not only followed by 

 an essay similar in character, but carried 

 out his ideal style in his garden at Twick- 

 enham. Among the principal designers 

 and advocates of the new school of gar- 

 dening, the names of Bridgman, Kent, 

 Wright, Mason, Brown, Shenstone, Price, 

 Knight, Rapton, and Loudon are con- 

 spicuous. In the first years of the present 

 century, the establishment of horticul- 

 tural societies, and the publication of 

 journals, magazines, and encyclopaedias 

 devoted to the diffusion of knowledge on 

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