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scenery, as between horticulture, agricul- 

 ture, and uncultivated nature. The first 

 is an artificial object, and has no other 

 pretence to be natural, than what it de- 

 rives from the growth of the plants which 

 adorn it: their selection, their disposi- 

 tion, their culture, must all be the work 

 of art; and instead of that invisible line or 

 hidden fence, which separates the mown 

 turf from the lawn fed by cattle, it is 

 more rational to shcM' that the two ob- 

 jects are separated, if the fence is not 

 unsightly; otherwise we must either sup- 

 pose that cattle are admitted to crop the 

 flowers and shrubs, or that flowers and 

 shrubs are absurdly planted in a pasture 

 exposed to cattle, or, which is more fre- 

 quently the case, we must banish flowers 

 entirely from the windows of a house, 

 and suppose it to stand on a naked grass 

 field.'' 



^ Fences are not objectionable when they mark a 

 separation, and not a boundary of property. Thus a 

 park-pale marks the precise limits of the park, and a 

 hedge before a wood renders it liable to be mistaken for 

 a wood belonging to some other person, and therefore 

 acts as a boundary: but the hurdle, which makes a 



