50 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



scenes, even the lawless aspects of his favorite robbers and 

 banditti are not more spirited, than the bold rocks and wild 

 passes by which they are surrounded. And in the produc- 

 tions of his pencil we see the influence of a romantic and 

 vigorous imagination, nursed amid scenes teeming with 

 the grand as well as the picturesque — both of which he 

 embodied in the most striking manner. 



In giving these illustrations of beautiful and of pictu- 

 resque scenes, we have not intended them to be understood 

 in the light of exact models for imitation in Landscape 

 Gardening — only as striking examples of expression in 

 natural scenery. Although in nature many landscapes 

 partake in a certain degree of both these kinds of expression, 

 yet it is no doubt true that the effect is more satisfactory, 

 where either the one or the other character predominates. 

 The accomplished amateur should be able to seize at once 

 upon the characteristics of these two species of beauty in 

 all scenery. To assist the reader in this kind of discrimi- 

 nation, we shall keep these expressions constantly in view, 

 and we hope we shall be able fully to illustrate the diifer- 

 ence in the expression of even single trees, in this roSpect. 

 A few strongly marked objects, either picturesque or simply 

 beautiful, will often confer their character upon a whole 

 landscape ; as the destruction of a single group of bold 

 rocks, covered with wood, may render a scene, once pictu- 

 resque, completely insipid. 



The early writers on the modern style were content with 

 trees allowed to grow in their natural forms, and with an 

 easy assemblage of sylvan scenery in the pleasure-grounds, 

 which resembled the usual woodland features of nature. 

 The effect of this method will always be interesting, and an 

 agreeable effect will always be thei result of following the 



