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INTRODUCTION. 



first volume of his second edition justifies 

 the utility of such a work. I beg to make 

 the following short extract : — - 



" As the general plan and intention of my 

 " first publication," says Sir Uvedale, " have 

 " been a good deal misunderstood, I wish to 

 " give a short account of them both. The 

 " title itself might have shown, that I aimed 

 " at something more than a mere book of 

 " Gardening. Some, however, have conceived 

 " that I ought to have begun by setting forth 

 " all my ideas of lawns, shrubberies, gravel 

 " walks, &c. ; and, as my arrangements did 

 " not coincide with their notions of what it 

 " ought to have been, they seem to have con- 

 " eluded that I had no plan at all." 



What Sir Uvedale here leaves his readers 

 to gather from the whole of his interesting 

 and instructive work, it is the aim and in- 

 tention of the following pages (as far as 

 relates to the immediate subject of Landscape 

 Gardening) to concentrate, and to render 

 practically useful. 



All the writers on this subject that I have 

 met with (the author of the Essays except- 

 ed), whatever be their comparative merit, 

 appear to me to be more or less defective 



