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former is appropriated to profit, the latter to pleasure. Fields 

 profusely ornamented do not retain the appearance of a farm ; 

 and an apparent attention to produce obliterates the idea of a 

 garden. A park is sometimes not much hurt by being turned 

 to account. 



With respect to the means of acquiring experience and 

 taste, the author concludes by remarking : — " The art of 

 gardening is not to be studied in those spots only where it 

 has been exercised ; for all together contain but a small pro- 

 portion of the beauties which nature exhibits ; and unless the 

 improver has stored his mind with ideas from the infinite 

 variety of the country at large, he will feel the want of that 

 number which is necessary for choice ; he will have none 

 ready to apply to the subject immediately before him, and 

 will be reduced to copy an imitation. But improved places 

 are of singular use to direct the judgment in the choice, and 

 the combination of the beauties of nature. An extensive 

 knowledge of them is to be acquired in the country where 

 they casually occur: discernment of their excellencies, and a 

 taste for the disposition of them, is to be found in places 

 where they have been selected, and arranged with design." 



EUROPEAN PARKS, NO. VI. 



BY HOWARD DANIELS, ARCHITECT, N. Y. 

 THE LONDON PARKS, 



Regent's Park contains about 450 acres, and is situated 

 on the northwest side of London ; it was laid out in IS 12, by 

 Mr. James Morgan, from the designs of Mr. Nash, architect, 

 but was not opened to the public until 1838. It was named 

 after George IV., then Prince Regent, who is said to have 

 contemplated building a palace on the northeast side. I have 

 been informed, however, that Mr. Nash reserved the circle 

 now occupied by the Botanic Garden as the site for the pro- 

 posed palace. 



