On the present Style of Ornamental Gardening. 2 1 1 



they were when they first entered there ; but I am bound to 

 say that this happened more from their own careless remiss- 

 ness, than from any want of kindness on the part of the mas- 

 ter. Some apprentices very soon get wiser than even their 

 masters; in which case, unluckily for themselves, they go out 

 into the world but little better for either his advice or example ; 

 and, consequently, when they find that they have been losing 

 time, lay the blame on him, whom they called, but never 

 esteemed as their master. 



I have only to add the advice, that if young men A^^ill only 

 exert themselves in the pursuit of their business, and gain the 

 favour of their masters by careful assiduity, they will always 

 find them their friends, and ready as well to teach as to assist 

 them in their views of advancement. Whatever may be the 

 personal character or peculiarities of manner of the masters, 

 conciliatory behaviour on the part of the pupil will insure his 

 respect; and nothing of whatever the former may know or 

 practise will be withheld from the latter. I am. Sir, &c. 



J. D* P. 



Art. VII. JRemarhs on the -present Style of Ornamental Gar- 

 dening in this Country^ and Suggestions for Improvements, 

 By an Amateur. 



{Continued from p. 90.) 



It would not be difficult, were it necessary, to lay down 

 positive and particular rules for the laying out of the gardens 

 of each of the above-mentioned eras of building. It may be 

 sufficient to remark, that they all admit of architectural orna- 

 ments; the taste in their disposition, and the skill in their 

 execution, being determined by the style of the individual 

 building. The terrace, or succession of terraces, of the baro- 

 nial castle will not require the same ornaments as the monas- 

 tic terrace ; nor will that, again, be so richly or gorgeously 

 adorned as the Palladian terrace : and let it here be observed, 

 by the way, that by a terrace is not always implied that ele- 

 vated spot from whence a commanding and distant view is 

 obtained, a misconception of this description of ornament 

 to a building entertained by many ; but any raised, straight 

 and broad, paved or gravelled walk, on a level, running paral- 

 lel to, or surrounding, a building. Many, in these times, have 

 chosen to misinterpret the original intention for which ter- 

 races were formed, and because some of the remains of them, 

 and no doubt, therefore, the finest and most agreeable, enjoy 

 a distant and extensive prospect, have imagined that, without 



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