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although we look at them without inte- 

 rest, and fly from them to farms and fields, 

 even preferring a common or a heath, to 

 the dull round of a walk or drive, without 

 ohjects, and without variety. 



When by this false taste for extent, Pir^ 



*' Scenery. 



Parks had become enlarged beyond all 

 reasonable bounds of prudence or econo- 

 my, in the occupation : it then became ad- 

 viseable to allot large portions of land for 

 the purposes of agriculture, Avithin the belt 

 or outline of this useless and extravagant 

 inclosure; and thus great part of the in- 

 terior of a park is become an arable farm. 

 Hence arises thenecessity of contracting 

 that portion of an estate in which beauty, 

 rather than profit, is to be considered. 



Much of the controversy concerning Garden 



, ^ 1 • 1 • Scenery. 



modern Gardening seems to have arisen 

 from the want of precision in our lan- 

 guage. Gardening is alike applied to the 

 park, the lawn, the shrubbery, and the 

 kitchen garden; and thus the scenery of 

 one is blended with that of another, vdien 

 there is as much difference between gar- 

 den scenery, park scenery, and forest 



