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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



of the Park at Sledmere, in Yorkshire : the 

 oval plantations, though of about a thousand 

 feet in circumference, do not appear to me in 

 any way to " preclude the stale objection of 

 " a want of variety, and a too frequent re- 

 " currence of the same figures," which Sir 

 Henry Steuart anticipates from their enlarged 

 size : the figure is the same, whatever be its 

 dimensions. 



The sketch below represents the alteration 

 I have ventured to make in " those elegant 

 " forms, the oval, and the circle," which Sir 

 Henry advocates. 



The ideas here stated upon this subject 

 being in direct opposition to those set forth 

 in Steuart' s Planter's Guide, and differing in 

 some degree from the feeling manifested in 

 the review of that work in the Quarterly, it 

 becomes imperative to state the question at 

 issue in such a point of view as will enable 

 those who are interested in it to make their 

 election. To this end it is necessary that the 

 writers above mentioned should be heard 

 at large upon a point, on which they have as 

 unreservedly condemned the opinions just 

 stated, as I have ventured to do those which 

 thev advocate. 



