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to listen to a professor, whose interest it is 

 to recommend total demolition.* 



The owners of places where the^ old gar- 

 dens have been preserved, may naturally 

 feel, about raised terraces, &c. nearly as 

 they would about avenues ; many who 

 would hardly plant, might still be unwilling 

 to destroy them. What exists, and is mel- 

 lowed and consecrated by time, and varied 

 by accident, is very different from the 

 crudeness of nev work; it requires only a 

 passive, or at most an obstinate indolence, 

 to leave an old garden standing ; it would 

 require 'a very active determination in a 

 man ever so well convinced of its merit, to 

 form a new garden, or any part of it, after 

 an exploded model. The change from up- 

 right terraces to undulating ground, is an 

 obvious improvement ; it seems only to 

 restore nature to its proper original state 



* Besides. the profit arising from total change, a disciple 

 of Mr. Brown has another motive for recommending it — 

 he hardly knows where to begin, or what to set about, till 

 every thing is cleared ; for those objects which to painter* 

 are indications, to him are obstructions. 



