CONTENTS 



OF THE 



NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



SECTION I. 



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Note I. Limited extent of arboricultural knowledge in Scotland. 

 Two anecdotes respecting it. — Note II. Importance of establish- 

 ing a Scottish Arboricultural Society. Miserable condition of 

 the nursery business. No science in nurserymen. Want of it 

 in the landholders the efficient cause. — Note III. Origin of 

 landscape gardening in England. Fine idea of it given by 

 Milton. Bacon, Kent. First places laid out by him. — Note 

 IV. High merit of Sir Uvedale Price, in improving the pre- 

 sent taste. Loudon's " Improvement of Country Residences." 

 Pontey's "Hural Improver." General reformation in land- 

 scape gardeners. — Note V, Utility of the art, in wooding the 

 open grounds of a great city. Example of Edinburgh. Oppor- 

 tunity from Lord Moray's late park lost, never to be recalled. 

 Possibility of at once wooding the Scottish Acropolis. - 371-378 



SECTION II. 



Note III. The art of landscape painting unknown to the Ancients. 

 Not a picturesque description in all Homer or Virgil. Ludius, 

 in the time of Augustus, the first landscape painter. The 

 elder Pliny's account of the art. — Note X. The younger 

 Pliny's two gardens. His descriptions of them might serve for 

 those in the time of King William III. Cherries raised in 

 Britain before the time of Julius Caesar. — Note XI. Excellent 

 imitation, by Gaspar Barlaeus, of the style of Tacitus. — Note 

 XII. Idea of Le Notre, the favourite garden-architect of Louis 

 XIV. Causes of the paramount ascendancy of his genius in 



