GARDENING. 
‘Each fecret haunt, - we ae difplay’d, 
And raeiee banifh’d wit 
«¢ Hence, hence ! ne haggd fiend, powers call’d, 
Thin eee genius of the bare and ba 
mattock ie at ers lay d do wn, 
to die tomb thy favou 
oe who! 
With clumps befpotted o’er the mountain fide, 
And bade the ftream ’twixt banks clofe fhaven glide ; 
Banifh'd the thickets of high tow’ring wood 
Which hung g refleGied, o’er the glafly flood.”’ 
Land{cape, p. 25. ed. 2. 
Verdant feulptur e, and = regular precifion that marked 
the views of the prece eried, were now, however, 
wholl, y laid prises and more Sich defigns fubftituted in their 
places n became at this time a eading defigner, 
- who, alien ‘the trammels of his prede 
the p 
the reft being fiera fied ae trees variouffy difpofe 
to produce the moft natu es. Other niefel | improve- 
as he beca 
that le 
anne) was the difcovery of the means 
ing the ee of walls as boundaries, in the form- 
of funk-fences, called Aa ha’s by the common people, 
as ere of furprize at being imperceptibly ftopped in 
their progrefs. This mode of fencing had fearcely been in- 
troduced before the ie a of abe 
&c. fuececded it. ing 
adjoining oe of a6 cH on ae out tide of the ies 
ence was to be in fome meafure made to harmonize with 
the fhort erated lawn on the infide; and th 
turn, to be fet free from its prim 
affort with the more wild country ae 
tence afcertained the fpecific garden; but that it might not 
draw too obvious a line of diftin@tion between the neat and 
the rude, the contiguous out-lying parts came - is included 
in a kind of ie eral ia gns and when nature v i 
the plan, under rovements, every ftep th 
conceives, poet out new beauties, and well new ideas”? 
ings were in this, ftate when Ken appeared, who, 
Walpo ole, in his hiftor ry of gar aie fubjoined to the 
dotes ‘of Painting,” fays, was “ painter | enough t © 
tafte the charms of la: sari bold a 
to dare and and born w ith a genius ‘to ftrike out 
7 great fyi item from ae twilight of imperfe& e arty He 
leaped the fi fence, and fax aw that all nature was a garden. He 
an the delici t of hill and valley changing imper- 
eeptibly into mes er ta e gentle 
fiwell or con neave {coop, and 
wned an eafy eminence with happ 
ant view between their graceful 
perfpective by delufive 
comparifon. ’ continues he, ‘ the pencil of his ima- 
gination beftowed ah the arts of landfcape on the fcenes he 
handled. The great earls on which he worked were 
eae and: hi fhade. Groups of trees broke 
9 uniform, or too sorter a lawn; evergreens and woods 
Mr’ ‘ 
Aas 
-progrefs at -fome naturally expected ditta 
were oppofed to the glare of the champaign ; and, where the 
view was lefs fortunate, or fo much expofed as to be beheld. 
ect 
Thus, ing oa ite objedte, at and veiling deformities by 
fcreens of plantati ns fometimes allowing the rudeft wafte t 
add its foil to the richeft theatre, he hie ed the compofi- 
w 
tect could beitow immediate term 
his feats, his temples, were more t the w 
than his compafles. We owe, Tal ole conceives, 
*¢ the reftoration of Gri eece and the difufion of architecture 
to his fill in lan 
Wa 
cape.” 
is management of water was seule, and calculated 
to introduce i rable relics on the face of nature. 
ntroduce in 
He bade adieu to all the tiff formal modes of cones alae 
oe RPE that Jaft 
see appar aie in ana atiical ee concealed by 
properly interfperfed thickets, ane interr upted by the dit- 
erence of levels, fo as to fhew itfe 7 oe in its gliftening 
he b 
were indeed fmoothed, but all their fea ne ‘of waving irre- 
gularity effectually preferved. The edges of the banks were 
cinerea ftudded with trees, to remove their famenefs ; 
and, where its meandering courfe difappeared among hills, 
fhades defcending from the heights inclined towards its pro- 
grefs, and framed the diftant point of light under which it 
was wt ia turning in either direCtion. 
aling, in this mae in none b tru “ 
ture, one feiz “iz mg, upon its moft in trating features, : new 
creation was Sr ually an ted to the man of taite. «The 
living eee ? fays Mr. es ae “was chaftened or 
polifhed, not transformed. m was given to the forms 
of trees; they extended their Genes unreltri€ted ; and 
where any eminent oak, or mafter beech, had efcaped maim- 
e colours of na 
ing, and as tne ae eit, the bufh an were re- 
moved, an its honours were ihe i ee and 
fhade the aan Where the united p an ancient 
wood extended wide its indienne oe a floss vene- 
rable in-dar aay Kent yet — foremott coe and — 
ie frequent lle the hot i es oe Ae acperee Xpo a a having 
followed and imitated mes wre with fo much happinefs an 
fice ls ee ae at wher 2 often puthed his re- 
formations much further tea was oun by correét princi- 
ples and true tafte. 
Thefe defects have not only been corrected and improved, 
but a new and matte rly finifhing applied by the tafte and ge-~ 
nius of oo profeffors, ed whom ol be ranked 
the names Price, Knight, London, &c. e ftrenuous 
and fuccetfl attempts of fome of the earlier defigners, with 
thof of 
ys 
sae * 4 5 tal 
of Cur 
paren. ie seme a much more natural and pictu- 
re{que fyftem, and greatly contributed to the expulfion of the - 
ftiff formal praCtice of the Dutch {ichool, as well as that of 
Brown and his followers of more recent periods, a tees 
of what they term “ landfcape gardening.” — eautia 
fully thewn in the lines below, which were left =e en 4 
