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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



the model for her rocks, her precipices, and 

 her forests. As well might we compare a 

 picture of Guido with one of Salvator Rosa, 

 to adjust their separate excellence in their 

 common art. Each took nature for his mo- 

 del : and the man of taste (who, I apprehend, 

 is here meant by the well-educated) will ad- 

 mire each without depreciating the other. 



It will be remembered, that this system of 

 circles and ovals is recommended for the 

 planting of a park, or park-like scenery ; and 

 not only recommended, but insisted upon, as 

 exclusively consonant with good taste. Let 

 us hear what the same author says in another 

 part of his book ; where, in speaking of plant- 

 ing, he observes, — " But on such subjects, as 

 " on most others connected with taste in the 

 " disposition of wood, great diversity of opi- 

 66 nion must prevail ; and that mode of ar- 

 " rangement or execution will generally seem 

 " the handsomest, in which the genius of the 

 " place is best studied, and where the most 

 " luxuriant growth and the most careless 

 " disposition of wood are produced. The 

 " greatest triumphs of art must always be 

 M those in which, in rivalling Nature, she most 

 " completely effects her own concealment." 



