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elegance, picturesqueness, or grandeur, joined with unity, 

 harmony, and variety, more distinct and more forcible than 

 are suggested by natural scenery ; producing by this means 

 intellectual gratification, separate and distinct from that 

 arising from the mere admiration of forms or materials em- 

 ployed. 



The bemi ideal in Landscape Gardening as a fine art, ap- 

 pears to us to be embraced in the creation of scenery expres- 

 sive of a peculiar kind of beauty, as the elegant or pictur- 

 esque, 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 

 be found in any one portion of nature ; — a scene character- 

 ized as a work of art, by the variety of the materials, as foreign 

 trees, plants, &-c., and by the polish and keeping of the 

 grounds in the natural style, as distinctly as by the uniform 

 and symmetrical arrangement, in the ancient style. 



A fac-simile imitation of nature in gardening, that is, a 

 scene like wild nature, in which only wild trees, shrubs, and 

 plants, are employed, and which is precisely like wild nature, 

 produces pleasure only as it deceives us, and appears to be 

 nature itself An artistical imitation, affords pleasure to the 

 mind, not only by the expressions of natural beauty which 

 we discover in it, but by the more novel and choicer forms in 

 which they are displayed, and by the tasteful art apparent in 

 the arrangement. The relative merit of the two may be 

 illustrated, by comparing the first, to the counterfeit of the hu- 

 man figure in wax, which at a short distance maybe thought 

 real, and the last, to the painted landscape or the marble 

 statue. The two latter are no less imitations of nature, than 

 the former, but they are expressive and elegant imitations 



