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such as, though they would not be made choice of in preference, 

 yet would not be rejected, by a landscape-painter. Comparing 

 the picturesque and the gardenesque styles of landscape, the 

 former may be said to study most the effect of the whole, as a 

 picture or landscape, which might be painted ; and the latter the 

 beauties of the whole, as a garden scene for walking in, and 

 enjoying the trees and plants individually. Compared as to the 

 intensity and duration of the enjoyment, the picturesque style 

 may be said to address itself chiefly to one class of admirers, 

 viz. the lovers of landscape scenery ; and the gardenesque not 

 only to the lovers of landscape scenery, but to the botanist and 

 the gardener. The latter, therefore, embracing, as it does, more 

 than one kind of beauty, stands higher in the scale of art than 

 the former. Rural, or natural, landscape is characterised by 

 being rural, or natural, as contrasted with the artificial scenery 

 by which it is, or may be, surrounded in the given locality : it 

 becomes, therefore, only an art, when it is known to be the work 

 of man. To us it appears that, when the terms designating these 

 four styles are properly understood, so as to be readily applied 

 to artificial scenery by gardeners, it will be of essential service 

 to them in laying out grounds : it will prevent them from 

 endeavouring to bring together, in the same garden or scene, 

 beauties which are incompatible with each other : for example, 

 the gardenesque and the picturesque in the same shrubbery, or 

 on the same lawn ; or, in other words, handsome single speci- 

 mens and picturesque groups : or from attempting to combine 

 the gardenesque with the natural ; in other words, from mixing 

 portions of what may be called highly refined scenerj', composed 

 of exotic trees and plants, with fine turf and gravel, with por- 

 tions of the ordinary nature of the locality. The introduction 

 of herbaceous flowers among trees and shrubs is a subject con- 

 nected with landscape-gardening which, at present, is not at all 

 understood by practical men. When herbaceous flowers are 

 introduced in picturesque scenery, they ought to be allowed to 

 run wild, and the surface on which they are planted should 

 never, in the slightest degree, be cultivated ; but when they are 

 introduced into gardenesque scenery, it must only be in situations 

 where the particular kind of plant will thrive and come to per- 

 fection ; and the ground about each plant must be highly culti- 

 vated. In the rural style, no foreign plants whatever, and no 

 marks of culture, must appear. (See p, 412.) 



The publications on landscape-gardening have hitherto, for 

 the most part, been of too abstract and metaphysical a nature to 

 be of much use to practical gardeners ; but we hope to remedy 

 that evil in this Magazine, by directing the attention of gardeners 

 to one point at one time, and reducing every principle to practice 

 in such a familiar manner as not to be misunderstood. It will 

 readily be granted, by those who are acquainted with this sub- 



