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The Theory and Practice of Gardening, 171 2. 

 The last word of protest was written by Sir Walter 

 Scott. In I 827 he wrote a paper on " Gardens " 

 for The Quarterly, which appeared in 1828 as a 

 review of Sir Henry Stewart's Planter s Guide. 

 In this he pointed out the irreparable folly of 

 destroying these formal gardens, and the fallacy 

 of claiming for landscape gardening that it was 

 loyal to nature ; or that Milton, who of all 

 men loved the formal garden, was in any sense 

 identified with the introduction of landscape 

 gardening. The paper contains a charming 

 description of the garden of Barncluith, in 

 Lanarkshire, an old garden of the eighteenth 

 century laid 'out by one of the Millars, "full of 

 long straight walks, betwixt hedges of yew and 

 hornbeam, which rose tall and close on every 

 side." Scott also describes an old garden at 

 Kelso which he first saw in 1783. In his 

 journal for 29th August 1827 he notes that 

 "the yew hedges, labyrinths, wildernesses . . . are 

 all obliterated, and the place is as common and 

 vulgar as may be. In 1829 Felton published 

 his Gleanings on Gardens. Since that date the 

 question of garden design seems to have lost 

 interest for the public. An article appeared in 

 The Quarterly in 1842 on London's Encyclo- 

 pedia, and a paper in The Carthusian for 1845. 

 The writer of the latter essay supported the old 

 formal garden with a wealth of scholarly allusion, 

 and the same ground was taken up by Mrs. 



