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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



" he receives the plausible reply, that what 

 " he now sees is not the final result of the 

 " designer's art ; but that all this fantastic zig- 

 " zaggery, which resembles the traces left by 

 " a dog scampering through snow, is but a set 

 " of preparations for introducing, at a future 

 " period, as the trees shall come to maturity, 

 " those groups and glades — that advancing 

 " and retiring of the woodland scene — which 

 " will realise the effects demanded by the 

 " lovers of the picturesque. At present, we 

 " are told, that the scene resembles a lady's 

 " tresses in papillotes, as they are called, and 

 " in training for the conquests which they 

 " are to make when combed into becoming 

 " ringlets. But, alas ! art is in this department 

 " peculiarly tedious ; and life, as in all cases, 

 " precarious and short. How many of these 

 " papillotes will never be removed at all, 

 " and remain unthinned out, like the clumps 

 " and belts of Brown's school, disfiguring the 

 " scenes they were designed to adorn ! " 



I must here repeat, that examples in any 

 way agreeing with the above description have 

 not fallen under my observation : I will, how- 

 ever, meet them in all due deference to the 

 splendid talent of the author who states them 



