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with which they are made : what is merely 

 fantastic and extravagant, and done upon 

 no just principle, will very justly be ne- 

 glected after the fashion is past ; but gar- 

 dening must not pretend to differ from all 

 the other fine arts, and reject all artificial 

 ornaments, and pride herself upon simpli- 

 city alone, which (as Sir Joshua Reynolds 

 well observes in speaking of painting) when 

 it seems to avoid the difficulties of the art, 

 is a very suspicious virtue. I do not mean 

 by this the mere execution, though it is 

 without comparison more difficult in the 

 Italian style : the difficulties in gardening, 

 as in other arts, do not lie in forming the 

 separate parts, in making upright terraces 

 and fountains, or serpentine walks, planta- 

 tions, and rivers, but in producing a variety 

 of compositions and effects by means of 

 those parts, and in combining them, what- 

 ever they may be, or however mixed, into 

 one striking, and well connected whole. 



