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can only afford pleasure for a short time, to tasteless minds, or 
those fond of trifling and puerile conceits. The production 
of an accordant whole, is, on the contrary, capable of affording 
the most permanent enjoyment to educated minds, every 
where, and at all periods of time. 
After unity, the principle of Variety is worthy of con- 
sideration, as a fertile source of beauty in Landscape Garden- 
ing. Variety must be considered as belonging more to the 
details, than to the production of a whole ; and it may be 
attained by disposing trees and shrubs in numerous different 
ways ; and by the introduction of a great number of 
different species of vegetation, or kinds of walks, ornamental 
objects, buildings and seats. By producing intricacy, it 
creates in scenery a thousand points of interest, and elicits new 
beauties, through different arrangements and combinations 
of forms and colours, light arid shades. In pleasure-grounds, 
while the whole should exhibit a general plan, the different 
scenes presented to the eye, one after the other, should pos- 
sess sufficient variety in the detail, to keep alive the interest 
of the spectator, and awaken further curiosity. 
Harmony may be considered the principle presiding over 
variety, and preventing it from becoming discordant. It, 
indeed, always supposes contrasts , but neither so strong, nor 
so frequent, as to produce discord ; and variety, but not so 
great, as to destroy a leading expression. In plantations, we 
seek it in a combination of qualities, opposite in some re- 
spects, as in the colour of the foliage, and similar in others, 
as the form. In embellishments, by a great variety of 
objects of interest, as sculptured vases, sun dials, or rustic 
seats, baskets, and arbors, of different forms, but all in 
accordance, or keeping, with the spirit of the scene. 
To illustrate the three principles, with reference to Land- 
