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Since the art of Landscape Gardening 

 requires the combination of certain por- 

 tions of knowledge in so many different 

 arts, it is no wonder that the professors 

 of each should respectively suggest what 

 is most obvious to their own experience; 

 and thus the painter, the kitchen gardener, 

 the engineer, the land agent, and the archi- 

 tect, will frequently propose expedients 

 different from those which the landscape 

 gardener may think proper to adopt. The 

 difficulties which I have occasionally ex- 

 perienced from these contending interests 

 induced me to make a complete digest of 

 each subject proposed to my consideration, 

 assigning the reasons on which my opinion 

 was founded, and stating the comparative 

 advantages to the whole, of adopting or 

 rejecting certain parts of any plan. 



Finding that a mere^map was no more 

 capable of conveying an idea of the Land- 

 scape, than the ground plan of an house 



Huntingdonshire, the son of my predecessor, for having 

 presented me with the maps of tlie greatest works in 

 which his father had been consulted, both in their 

 original and improved states. 



