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CONCLUDING CHAPTER. 



I have now gone through the principal 

 points of modern gardening ; but the ob- 

 servations I have made relate almost en- 

 tirely to the grounds, and not to what may 

 properly be called the garden. 



As the art of gardening in this extended 

 sense*, vies with that of painting, and has 

 been thought likely to form a new school 

 of painters, T think I am justified in hav- 

 ing compared its operations and effects 

 with those of the art it pretends to rival, 

 nay, to instruct. These two rivals whom 

 I am so desirous of reconciling, have hi- 

 therto been guided by very opposite princi- 

 ples, and the character of their productions 



# A gentleman, whose taste and feeling, both for art and 

 nature, rank as high as any man's, was lamenting to me the 

 extent of Mr. Brown's operations:—" Former improvers," 

 said he, "at least kept near the house ; but this fellow 

 crawls like a snail all over the grounds, and leaves his cursed 

 *lime behind him wherever he goes." 



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