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resque scenery (Mr. Gilpin) has often 

 regretted that few are capable of being 

 so represented, without considerable li- 

 cense and alteration. 



If therefore the painter's landscape be 

 indispcnsible to the perfection of garden- 

 ing, it would surely be far better to paint 

 it on canvas at the end of an avenue (as 

 they do in Holland), than to sacrifice 

 » the health, cheerfulness, and comfort 

 of a country residence, to the wild but 

 pleasing scenery of a painter's imagina- 

 tion. 

 Beauty, There is no exercise so delightful to 



and not ^ £* j j 



Picturesque- the inquisitive mind, as that or deducing 



ness. , ,. . . . 



theories and systems trom favourite opi- 

 nions: I was therefore peculiarly inte- 

 rested and gratified by your ingenious 

 distinction betwixt the beautiful and the 

 picturesque; but I cannot admit the pro- 

 priety of its application to Landscape 

 Gardening; because beauty, and not 

 '• picturesqueness," is the chief object of 

 modern improvement: for although some 

 nurserymen, or labourers in the kitchen 

 garden, may have badly copied Mr. 



