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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
character, and plants, builds, and embellishes, as he should — 
constantly aiming to elicit and strengthen it — will soon 
arrive at a far higher and more satisfactory result, than one, 
who, in the common manner, works at random. The latter 
may succeed in producing pleasing grounds — he will un- 
doubtedly add to the general beauty and tasteful appearance 
of the country, and we gladly accord him our thanks. But 
the improver who unites with pleasing forms, an expression 
of sentiment, will affect not only the common eye, but, much 
more powerfully, the imagination, and the refined and deli- 
cate taste. 
Expression being the master key to the heart, in all land- 
scapes, it follows that the highest imitative sphere of the art 
of Landscape Gardening, consists in arranging the materials 
so as to awaken emotions of grace, elegance, or picturesque- 
ness, joined with unity, harmony, and variety, more distinct 
and forcible, than are suggested by natural scenery. This 
may, at first sight, seem difficult, to the mere lover of nature ; 
but a moment’s thought will convince him, that the very 
fact of art and man’s habitation being contrasted, as it is 
in a Landscape Garden, with a natural expression, will at 
once heighten the force of the latter. The sunny, peaceful 
lake is less smiling, and the impetuous mountain cascade less 
stirring, when we cross them in a wild journey, than when 
they open upon us, unlooked for, in the luxuriant grounds 
of a well kept, rural home. 
With these views regarding expression in natural scene- 
ry, we shall divide the modern style of Landscape Garden- 
ing into two kinds, founded on the two leading expressions 
to be imitated, viz : the graceful and the picturesque ; 
and, these two divisions having each their especial admirers, 
we shall distinguish them as the Graceful, and the Pictu- 
