LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 219 



LANDSCAPE QAEDENING. 



{From " The Gardeners' Chronicle" Leading Article^ August i^th 

 1864,^. 770-] 



SOME one has noted as a characteristic of the pre- 

 sent age its tendency to diffusion, expansion, and 

 universality. Horticulture and Landscape Gardening, 

 quiet professions as they are, are nevertheless influenced 

 by this onward movement. Horticulture is rapidly be- 

 coming a science built on the solid and secure foundation 

 of the physiologist's labours in the field of vegetable 

 anatomy. Landscape Gardening, roused and excited by 

 the progress of the sister arts, and aided by the introduc- 

 tions of modern travellers and hybridists, has entered 

 on a new era, and embraces a field wide as it is fertile, 

 and one in which the most industrious and gifted may 

 find ample scope for the exercise of his ingenuity and 

 taste. 



Time was when Landscape Gardening had but few 

 professors, and the materials with which they had to 

 work were limited in the extreme. How would Brown 

 and Repton, Price and Gilpin, have rejoiced over the 

 trees, shrubs, and plants which their successors have at 

 their disposal? Readily accessible by hundreds and 

 thousands, in a condition to produce immediate effect, 

 and at a price which recent improvements in the art of 

 propagation have made marvellously low, we can only 

 imagine what would have been the effect of England's 

 landscapes nozv had these things been accessible in their 

 day. 



But while modern landscape gardeners revel amidst 

 the wealth and variety of these later times, they should 

 not forget that the happier days in which they work 

 entail upon them increased responsibilities. And while 

 reminding them of this fact, we cannot but record here 



