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LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 
resque school. The charm of a refined and polished land- 
scape garden, as we usually see it in the graceful mode, 
with all the richness and beauty, developed by high cul- 
ture — lovely and enchanting as it is, and always must be — 
this charm, we say, is, notwithstanding, always immediately 
referred, very properly, to a certain perfection of growth, 
arising, mainly, from the superior care and cultivation which 
is bestowed on every object within our sight. 
But in the Picturesque landscape garden, there is visible, 
a piquancy of effect — certain bold and striking growths and 
combinations, which we feel, at once, if we know them to 
be the result of art, to be the production of a peculiar 
species of attention — not merely good, or even refined, 
ornamental gardening. In short, no one can be a pictu- 
resque improver who is not, himself, something of an artist — 
who has not studied nature with an artistical eye — and 
who is not capable of imitating, eliciting, or heightening, in 
his plantations, or other portions of his residence, the pictu- 
resque in its many variations. And we may add here, that effi- 
cient and charming as is the assistance, which all ornamental 
planters will derive from the study of the best landscape en- 
gravings and pictures of distinguished artists, they are 
indispensably necessary to the picturesque improver. In 
these he will often find embodied the choicest and most 
captivating studies from picturesque nature, and will see, at 
a glance, the effect of certain combinations of trees, which 
he might otherwise puzzle himself a dozen years to know 
how to produce. 
After all, as the picturesque improver, here, will most 
generally be found to be him who chooses a comparatively 
wild and wooded place, we may safely say that, if he has 
the true feeling for his work, he will always find it vastly 
