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The author of the Planter's Guide says, 

 " It is undeniably true, that there was great 

 " formality in the endless dotted clumps of 

 " Brown and his followers, which are long 

 " since exploded. Price alleged, with great 

 " severity and some truth, that a recipe could 

 " be given for making a place any where by 

 " Brown's system ; because you had only to 

 " take a belt with a walk in it, a few round 

 " clumps, and a formal piece of water, and 

 " the object was effected. But as to the cif- 

 " cular and oval clumps, as fashion always 

 " runs into extremes, it has now given us 

 ci something greatly worse in their stead. 



" It would have been nothing, after Brown 

 " (according to Price's witty remark) had 

 " changed Quadrata Rotundis, if the profes- 

 " sors of the present school had again sub- 

 " stituted Rotunda Quadratis, and restored the 

 "rectangular figures of a former day. But 

 " instead of this, our present landscape gar- 

 " deners have made a merit, and are regularly 

 " vain of disfiguring their most beautiful sub- 

 " jects with clumps and plantations, and 

 " even approaches, in the most zigzag and 

 " grotesque figures, which are ten times more 

 " hideous and unpicturesque than the worst 



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