622 Summary View of the Progress of Gardening, 



from being painters) is, that of arguing, or seeming to argue, 

 that there is only one kind of beauty applicable to natural 

 scenery, viz. the picturesque; and the pervading defect of those 

 landscape-gardeners who have arisen from being cultivators 

 is, that they do not know correctly what constitutes either the 

 picturesque or the gardenesque. The error of supposing that 

 the only kind of beauty adapted for garden scenery is the pic- 

 turesque, was a very natural one to fall into in the early days of 

 Price and Knight, after the long prevalence of the very opposite 

 kind of beauty in garden scenery, viz. the geometresque, or the 

 architecturesque, if we may be allowed these terms. At present, 

 however, the picturesque is found to be only a beauty among other 

 beauties ; and, though appropriate for some kinds of artificial 

 scenery, such as extensive parks, dells, dingles, &c., it is much 

 less adapted for scenes of cultivation, such as shrubberies, lawns, 

 and flower-gardens, than the gardenesque ; and by no means so 

 suitable for the immediate vicinity of a mansion as the archi- 

 tecturesque. It is a happy circumstance when the architect and 

 the landscape-gardener operate harmoniously together; and 

 this has been, and is long likely to continue to be, the case with 

 Mr. Nesfield, and his brother-in-law, Anthony Salvin, Esq., ar- 

 chitect. The latter is an artist of real genius ; and, tiiough not 

 I'egularly initiated in the profession of architect, and still a 

 young man, he is, perhaps, next to Mr. Barry, more exten- 

 sively employed by country gentlemen than any architect in 

 England. Another landscape-gardener who has been, and con- 

 tinues to be, extensively employed, is Mr. Forrest, than who 

 no artist in England is more thoroughly acquainted with the 

 executive part of his profession ; and particularly with the 

 various kinds of trees and shrubs adapted for different soils and 

 situations, without attending to which, the execution of the most 

 elegant design would lose half its interest. As a garden 

 architect, we know no man to be compared with Mr. Forrest. 

 Among many examples, in different parts of the country, we 

 may refer, as a standing proof of his abilities in this department 

 of his profession, to the admirable range of forcing-houses and 

 pineries erected in the kitchen-garden at Syon (see the plan, 

 &c., Vol. V. p. 509.), and to the walks and general arrangement 

 of that garden. Mr. Forrest has, also, had more experience in 

 laying out zoological gardens and arboretums than any other 

 artist. 



Commercial Gardening, taking the country generally, is in a 

 more prosperous state than it has been for some years ; though, 

 as we have elsewhere observed, a large portion of the business 

 of the metropolitan nurserymen is transferred to the provinces ; 

 a change which cannot fail to be highly beneficial to the public 

 as a whole, and ultimately so even to the metropolitan nursery- 



