ESSAY * 



DECORATIONS NEAR THE HOUSE. 



1 HAVE contracted a sort of engagement 

 with the public, to give my ideas on the 

 subject mentioned in the title — on the De- 

 corations near the House, in what may pro- 

 perly be called the Garden. I must own it 

 is an engagement I feel great difficulty in 

 fulfilling. The works of painters furnish va- 

 rious examples of landscapes in every style ; 

 of models which have been sanctioned by 

 constant and general approbation: to these, 

 therefore, the landscapes of a place, with 

 some allowances, may be referred. But of 



