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SATURDA Y, APR IL ', 



Brown copied Nature, 



Landscape Gardening before I 

 passed through many changes of fashi 

 then ever, change had been only fro: 

 fashion to another. Brown himself h 



e habit of formal : 

 perfectly paramo! 



and the gardener, 

 illiterate followers 



nerejbrm, all the mere rule-and-line men, set their 

 ices against the new system most determinedly. 

 I'his could excite no surprise. Their craft was in 

 ieril. But it is astonishing that a man like Sir 

 jvldale Price should write anything so unfair as 



iuowN, who has so fixed and determined the forms 

 ind lines of clumps, belt-, and serpentine canals, 

 .ud has been so steadily imitated by his followers, 

 hat had they been incorporated, their common seal, 

 nth a clump, a belt, and a piece of made water 

 vould have fully expressed the whole of their 

 cience, and have served them for a model as well 

 ,s a seal." And again : — '• (,'l.m or. Lokkaine was 



pation. Mr. Brown was bred a g 

 living nothing of the eye ot a painl 

 ? style (or rather his plan) upon 1 



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felargoniuiM'rom fine's* 



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in //;•> way as g 



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ail 1 til tor >>,•,!. •-.!,.;!! a:. . 



his stand as the originator 



the long run prevail. A man like Sir Uvedale 



Price would no doubt for the time 



srress of an humble gardi 



could only be for a time. We believe that the fame 



ot Mu.ton stands, and aU\a\s wlU - 



and howevei 



mid now deny I 



followers — those whose office 



mechanical fulfilment of his ideas-did 



indscapes which he created or improved ; but it 

 as so only because similar features would appear 

 i similar natural landscapes ; and bating a few 





able Collection 



of Orchids and c 

 They have just I 



Epidcndrum, in habit 



itellinum, from 

 ie Nubes ; fine specimens of 



be a new Perii-teria or Aciueta from 



irge as might t>e 



Lin: i: >ki -■■: ■ .. - ■ . - and lentil 



(EilVUM LKX6). 

 IM.i.r th '" be still rife, 



..acre general 



; pretend to 

 he globe are 



Btj before the 

 Llv £rt of autumn. The Haricots reqmre a loamy 

 soil, nther dry than wet ; all marshy local tiesj utr * ery 



later in the year. They reqmre a good compost some 



