INTRODUCTION 



This little work may probably, at first sight, 

 appear superfluous to those who have read 

 the Essays of Sir Uvedale Price upon this 

 department of taste; where the subject is 

 so ably and so fully discussed as to leave 

 no room for improvement, no ground for 

 dissent. Still, however, notwithstanding the 

 extended spirit of improvement in Land- 

 scape Gardening, it may be presumed that 

 numbers have not read those Essays ; whilst 

 others, from the want of previous knowledge 

 on the subject, may not be able to reap the 

 full information they contain, so as them- 

 selves to direct, upon the principles of taste, 

 the improvements they desire, or to appre- 

 ciate the ability of others to whom they 

 intrust a work of no light interest, either to 

 the owner of the place, or as connected with 

 the general diffusion of taste through the 

 country at large. 



Indeed, Sir Uvedale Price's preface to the 



