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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
11 As for the making of knots or figures with divers colored 
earths, that they may lie under the windows of the house, 
they be but toys ; you may see as good sights many times 
in tarts. I, for my .part, do not like images cut out in 
juniper or other garden stufl* ; they are for children.” 
Without a doubt, however, the glory and merit of the 
gardening revolution belong mainly to Addison and Pope. 
In 1712 appeared Addison’s papers on Imagination, con- 
sidered with reference to the works of Nature and Art. 
With a delicate and masterly hand, at a time when he pos- 
sessed, through the “ Spectator,” the ear of all refined and 
tasteful England, he lifted the veil between the garden and 
natural charms, and showed how beautiful were their rela- 
tions — how soon the imagination wearies with the stiffness 
of the former, and how much grace may be caught from a 
free-er imitation of the swelling wood and hill. 
The next year Pope, who was both a poet and painter, 
opened his quiver of satire in the celebrated article on ver- 
dant sculpture in the Guardian, where he ridiculed with no 
sparing hand the sheared alleys, formal groves, and 
“ Statues growing that noble place in, 
All heathen goddesses most rare, 
Homer, Plutarch, and Nebuchadnezzar, 
Standing naked in the open air !” 
Pope was a refined and skilful amateur, and his garden 
at Twickenham became a celebrated miniature type of the 
natural school. In his Epistle to Lord Burlington, he de- 
veloped sound principles for the new art ; — the study of 
nature ; the genius of the place ; and never to lose sight of 
good sense ; the latter a rule which the whimsical follies 
