126 GARDEX-CRAFT. 



To know truly how to lay out a garden " After a 

 more Grand and Rural Manner than has been done 

 before" you cannot do better than get Batty Lang- 

 ley's " New Principles of Gardening," and among other 

 things you have rules whereby you may concoct 

 natural extravagances, how you shall prime pros- 

 pects, make landscapes that are pictures of nothing 

 and very like ; how to copy hills, valleys, dales, 

 purling streams, rocks, ruins, grottoes, precipices, 

 amphitheatres, &c. 



The writings of Gilpin and Price were effective in 

 undermining Kent's School ; they helped to check the 

 rage for destroying avenues and terraces, and insisted 

 upon the propriety of uniting a country-house with 

 the surrounding scenery by architectural appendages. 

 The leakage from the ranks of Kent's School was 

 not all towards the Picturesque School, but to what 

 Loudon terms Repton's School, which may be con- 

 sidered as combining all that was excellent in what 

 had gone before. 



Following upon these phases is one that is oddly 

 called the " Gardenesque " Style, the leading feature 

 of which is that it illustrates the beauty of trees, and 

 other plants individually ; in short, it is the speci- 

 men style. According to the practice of all previ- 

 ous phases of modern gardening, trees, shrubs, and 

 flowers were indiscriminately mixed and crowded 

 together, in shrubberies or other plantations. Accord- 

 ing to the Gardenesque School, all the trees and 

 shrubs are arranged to suit their kinds and dimen- 

 sions, and to display them to advantage. The ablest 



