CONTENTS OF NOTES. XXXV 



ment of Country Residences." Pontcy's " Rural Improver." General 

 Reformation in Landscape Gardeners, p. 320. — Note. V. Utility of the 

 Art, in wooding the open Grounds of a Great City. Example of Edin- 

 burgh. Oj)portunity from Lord Moray's late Park lost, never to be 

 recalled. Possibility of at once wooding the Scottish Acropolis, p. 321. 



SECTION II. 



Note. IIL The Art of Landscape Painting unknown to the Ancients. 

 Not a Picturesque description in all Homer or Virgil. Ludius in the 

 time of Augustus, the first Landscape Painter. The elder Pliny's 

 Account of the Art, p. 323. — Note X. The younger Pliny's two gar- 

 dens. His descriptions of them might serve for those in the time of 

 King William HI. Cherries raised in Britain, before the time of Julius 

 Caesar, p. 325. — Note XI. Excellent imitation, by Caspar Barlaeus, 

 of the style of Tacitus, p. 326. — Note XII. Idea of Le Notre, the 

 favourite Garden-Architect of Lewis XIV. Causes of the paramount 

 ascendency of his genius in France. Taste in Gardening all over Eu- 

 rope still swayed by it. Great Britain excepted, p. 327. — Note XIII. 

 High Literary Character and Controversial powers of Sir Uvedale 

 Price. His severity towards Brown and Kent probably carried too far, 

 p. 328. — Note XIV. Anecdote of the late Earl of Abercorn, p. 328. — 

 Note XVI. Horticultural Achievement of Dr. Graham of Edinburgh. 

 Trees and Bushes removed by him, 330. — His success greater with 

 Exotics, than with Park Wood. Radical difference between Horticul- 

 tural Transplanting, and Transplanting in the Open Park. Idea of his 

 having anticipated the Preservative System unfounded, p. 332. — Note 

 XVII. English Gardening carried to Poland. Princess Czartoryski's 

 meritorious Treatise on the Art. — Loudon's curious picture of Polish 

 manners, and of a Royal Park, during the reign of Stanislaus, p. 333. 



SECTION III. 



Note I. Examination of the question, " Whether Plantations should 

 be raised from the Seed, or by means of Removed Plants ?" Marshall's 

 specious method of settling it, p. 335. Miller, Evel3m, Emmerick, 

 Speedily, Nicol, Sang, Pontey, variously advocate the question, p. 336. 

 — Dr. Yule's opinion in favour of Sowing. Sentiments of the author 

 of the Encyclopedia of Agriculture. Decisive Experiments by For- 

 syth, Summing up of the argument, in favour of Planting, p 337. — 

 Note II. The Mutilating System strongly reprobated by Miller. In- 



