I 26 Landscape Gardening 



will conjure away their magic power. The very instincts of 

 our souls ally us to what is naturally beautiful. 



Picturesqueness is by some restricted in its application to 

 whatever is fitted for being effectively represented in pictures, 

 — that, in fact, which an artist would choose to transfer to 

 his canvas. I have here given it no such limited meaning. 

 Possibly, however, that view of the term may help to illus- 

 trate and develop the sense more generally attached to it. 

 For it is with wildness, ruggedness, broken ground, straggling 

 and bold herbage, dashing water, fantastic groups of vegeta- 

 tion, the cracked and discolored stems and tortuous branches 

 of trees, ruins nearly dismantled, except of the ivy and the 

 fern, rude huts or cottages with their loose and mossy thatch 

 or buildings copiously stained by time and Hchen, that an 

 artist would usually prefer to work. And it is these that go 

 far towards comprising the picturesqueness of which I am 

 here writing. 



