PART II. 



1 o improve the scenery of a country, introdus- 

 and to display its native beauties with ad- 

 vantage, is an art Avhich originated iii 

 England, and has therefore been called 

 English Gardening; yet, as this expression 

 is not sufficiently appropriate, especially 

 since Gardening, in its more confined 

 sense of Horticulture, has been likewise 

 brought to the greatest perfection in 

 this country, I have adopted the term 

 Landscape Gardening, because the Landscape 

 art can only be advanced and perfected by wh'y^"o"^* 

 the united powers of the landscape painter 

 and the practical gardener. The former' 

 must conceive a plan which the latter may 

 be able to execute; for though a painter 

 may represent a beautiful landscape on his 

 canvas, and even surpass nature by the 

 combination of her choicest materials; yet 

 the luxuriant imagination of the painter " 

 must be subjected to the gardener's prac- ■ 

 tical knowledge in planting, digging, and 



