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As the park is a scene either planted by art, 

 or, if naturally -woody, artificially improved, we 

 expect a beauty and contrast in its clumps which 

 we do not look for in the wild scenes of' Nature. 

 We expect to see its lawns and their appendages 

 contrasted with each other in shape, size, and 

 disposition ; from which a variety of artificial, yet 

 natural, scenes will arise. We expect that when 

 trees are left standing as individuals they should 

 be the most beautiful of their kind, elegant and 

 well-balanced. We expect that all offensive 

 trumpery and all the rough luxuriance of under- 

 growth should be removed, unless where it is 

 necessary to thicken or connect a scene, or hide 

 some staring boundary. In the wild scenes of 

 Nature we have grander exhibitions, but greater 

 deformities than are generally met with in the 

 pohshed works of art. As we seldom meet with 

 these sublime passages in improved landscape, it 

 would be unpardonable if anything disgusting 

 should appear. 



The quaintness of Gilpin^s style is seen in such an 

 expi'ession as that used in the preceding paragraph when 

 he speaks of some of the wild undergrowth of a forest as 



