PHILIP MILLER 



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Thus, you will be always certain to please the soul, whenever 

 you show it many things or more than it had hoped to see. 



In this way may be explained the reason why we take pleasure 

 in seeing a perfectly regular garden, and yet are pleased to see a 

 wild and rural spot ; the same cause produces these effects. 



As we like to see a large number of objects, we would wish to 

 extend our view, to be in several places, traverse greater space : 

 in short, our soul escapes from bounds, and wishes, so to 

 speak, to widen the sphere of its presence; and derives 

 great pleasure from a distant view. But how to effect this? 

 In towns, our view is confined by houses; in the country, by 

 a thousand obstacles ; we can scarcely see three or four trees. 

 Art comes to our assistance, and discovers to us nature which 

 hides itself ; we love art, and we love it better than nature, that 

 is to say, nature concealed from our eyes : but when we find 

 beautiful situations, when our unfettered view can see in the 

 distance meadows, streams, hills, and these dispositions are, 

 so to speak, expressly created, it is enchanted otherwise than 

 when it sees the gardens of Le Notre; because nature does 

 not copy itself, whereas art always bears its own likeness. That 

 is why, in painting, we prefer a landscape to the plan of the most 

 beautiful garden in the world ; it is because painting only chooses 

 nature where it is beautiful, where the sight can extend to a 

 distance and to its full scope, where it is varied, where it can be 

 viewed with pleasure. Essay on Taste. 



" Hortulanorum Princeps :" for nearly fifty years gardener to the Botanic PHILIP 

 Garden at Chelsea belonging to the company of Apothecaries. "In him the MILLER, 

 perfect Botanist and Horticulturist -were combined" (G. W. Johnson). 



In 1792 appeared the tyh edition of his ' Gardener's Dictionary'' edited by 

 Professor Martyn of Cambridge, it having been already translated into Dutch, 

 German and French. Linnceus said of it, * ' Non est Lexicon Hortulanorum 

 sed Botanicorum." 



"~pHE Area of a handsom Garden may take up thirty or forty 

 * Acres, not more. 



And as for the Disposition and Distribution of this Garden, 

 the following Directions may be observed. 



