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style and degree, and their application, 

 ought certainly to be studied by orna- 

 mental gardeners, as well as the more dis- 

 tant pleasure ground, and still more distant 

 landscapes of the place. All I presume to 

 do, is to indicate what seem to me the ge- 

 neral principles : the invention of new, and 

 the application of old ornaments, require 

 the talents of an artist: but should the 

 study of the principles of painting become 

 an essential part of the education of an or- 

 namental gardener, I should not despair of 

 seeing them successfully applied to the 

 particular objects which have been treated 

 of in this Essay, as well as to those which 

 appear more strictly to belong to the land- 

 scape painter. 



I am, indeed, well convinced that there 

 is one way by which ornamental garden- 

 ing, in this confined, as well as in the more 

 enlarged sense of it, would make a real 

 and progressive improvement. It is, that 

 landscape painters (and by no means those 

 of the lowest class, or ability) should give 



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