LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



the walks less carefully trimmed, where the Picturesque 

 prevails ; while in portions more removed from the house, 

 the walks may sometimes sink into a mere footpath 

 without gravel, and the lawn change into the forest glade 

 or meadow. The architecture which belongs to the 

 picturesque landscape, is the Gothic mansion, the old 

 English or the Swiss cottage, or some other striking 

 forms, with bold projections, deep shadows, and irregular 

 outlines. Rustic baskets, and similar ornaments, may 

 abound near the house, and in the more frequented parts 

 of the place. 



The recognition of art, as Loudon justly observes, is a 

 first principle in Landscape Gardening, as in all other arts ; 

 and those of its professors have erred, who supposed that 

 the object of this art is merely to produce a fac-simile of 

 nature, that could not be distinguished from a w r ild scene. 

 But we contend that this principle may be fully attained 

 with either expression the picturesque cottage being as 

 well a work of art as the classic villa ; its baskets, and 

 seats of rustic work, indicating the hand of man as well 

 as the marble vase and balustrade ; and a walk, sometimes 

 narrow and crooked, is as certainly recognised as man's 

 work, as one always regular and flowing. Foreign trees 

 of picturesque growth are as readily obtained as those of 

 beautiful forms. The recognition of art is, therefore, 

 always apparent in both modes. The evidences are 

 indeed stronger and more multiplied in the careful polish 

 of the Beautiful landscape,* and hence many prefer this 



* The beau ideal in Landscape Gardening, as a fine art, appears to us to be 

 embraced in the creation of scenery full of expression, as the beautiful or pic- 

 turesque, the materials of which are, to a certain extent, different from those in 

 wild nature, being composed of the floral and arboricultural riches of all climates, 

 as far as possible ; uniting in the same scene, a richness and a variety never to 



