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PEEFACE. 



The design of the following work is altogether a prac- 

 tical one. While engaged in his profession, during the 

 last eighteen years, the author has often been requested 

 to recommend a book, which might enable persons con- 

 sulting him to acquire some general knowledge of the 

 principles of Landscape Gardening, and which might 

 aid them in carrying his suggestions into effect. He 

 has been in the habit of naming certain well-known 

 works, such as Price ' On the Picturesque,^ and Gilpin 

 'On Landscape Gardening.^ He has often felt, how- 

 ever, that such advice was, in great measure, illusory; 

 and that if implicitly followed, it would tend rather to 



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