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LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 



" embellished by such Art only as owns her 

 " supremacy, and knows to borrow, without 

 " being herself seen, every pleasing form 

 " which owes its origin to that unfailing; 

 " source of variety and beauty." 



Presuming that our present race of artists 

 means landscape painters, in contradistinction 

 to our present landscape gardeners, so lately 

 denounced as destitute of all pretension to 

 taste, will the author of the Planter's Guide 

 forgive me if I say, it is to be hoped that 

 there is discernment enough in our present 

 race of artists to see the propriety of omitting 

 " those fine figures the oval and the circle" 

 whenever they may be called upon to repre- 

 sent a scene disfigured by such misapplica- 

 tion of forms, though pronounced by him as 

 certainly the best for temporary and large 

 detached masses of wood ? I would ask, Are 

 these forms thus misapplied to be found in 

 the works of those artists, ancient or modern, 

 who have carried landscape painting to its 

 highest excellence ? Are they to be traced in 

 Claude or Poussin — in Wilson or in Turner? 



Sir Uvedale Price entertains a much more 

 enlightened view of the question, when he 

 says, — " It may be said, with much truth, that 



