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often introduced parts of gardens into 

 their landfcapes; Rubens fometimes, and 

 Watteau very frequently, painted garden 

 fcenes only ; in Claude, orange-trees and 

 flower-pots are mixed with his buildings : 

 hardly any thing in nature is fo polifhed, 

 fo formal, fo flat, nay fo ugly, as not to 

 have been fometimes made into a land- 

 fcape, and by fome painter of reputation. 

 To afk, therefore, whether the painter's 

 landfcape is indifpenfible to gardening, 

 is to afk whether all that is rugged and 

 favage, all that is highly cultivated and 

 embellifhed, all that is folemn and ma- 

 jeftic, all that is light and fantaftic — in 

 fhort, whether all the different characters 

 of art and nature are indifpenfible to the 

 perfection of gardening. Now, if inflead 

 of the painter's landfcape, you had put a 

 fiudy of the principles of painting, as in can- 

 dour you ought to have done, the whole 



would 



