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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



SECTION II. 



BEAUTIES OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Capacities of thp art. The aim of the modern style. General beauty and Picturesque beauty : 

 their distinctive characteristics. Illustrations drawn from Nature and Painting. Nature 

 and principles of Landscape Gardening as an Imitative art. The Gardenesque style. The 

 principles of Unity and Variety. 



" Here Nature in h§r unaffected dresse, 



Plaited with vallies and imbost with hills, 



Enchast with silver streams, and fringed with woods. 



Sits lovely." 



Chambkrlayne. 



" II est des soina plus doux, un art plus enchanteur 

 C'est peu de charmer I'csil, il faut parler au cceur. 

 Avez-vons done connu ces rapports invisibles 

 Des corps inanimfes et des etres sensibles? 

 Avez-vous entendu des eaux, des pres, des bois, 

 La muette Eloquence et la secrete voix? 

 Rendez-nous ces effets. " Les Jardins, Book I. 



E F O R E we proceed to a detailed and more 

 practical consideration of the subject, let us oc- 

 cupy ourselves for a moment upon the con. 

 "' sideration of the different results which are 

 to be sought after, or in other words, what 

 ^^""^ kinds of beauty are generally to be realized in 

 Landscape Gardening:. To attempt a great work in any art, 

 without knowing either the capacities of that art, ortlie great 



