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tacitly to advocate them in the following 

 passage : — 



* " Repton, indeed, has justly urged, in 

 " favour of the works of Kent and Brown, that 

 " the formal belts and clumps which they 

 " planted were intended only to encourage the 

 " rise of the young plantations, which were 

 " afterwards to be thinned out into varied and 

 " picturesque forms; but which have, in many 

 66 instances, been left in the same crowded 

 " condition and formal disposition which they 

 " exhibited at their being first planted. If 

 " the school of Kent and Brown were liable 

 " to be thus baffled by the negligence of those 

 " to whom the joint execution of their plans 

 " were necessarily trusted, a much greater 

 " failure may be expected, during the subse- 

 " quent generation, from the neglect of plans 

 " which affect to be laid out upon the prin- 

 " ciples of Price. We have already stated, 

 " that it is to be apprehended that a taste for 

 " the fantastic will supersede that which the 

 <c last age have entertained in favour of the 

 " formal. We have seen various efforts, by 

 " artists of different degrees of taste and 

 " eminence, to form plantations which are 



* Quarterly Review, March, 1828, p. 32]. 



