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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
the walks less carefully trimmed, where the Picturesque 
prevails ; while in portions more removed from the house, 
the walks may sometimes sink into a mere footpath 
without gravel, and the lawn change into the forest glade 
or meadow. The architecture which belongs to the 
picturesque landscape, is the Gothic mansion, the old 
English or the Swiss cottage, or some other striking 
forms, with bold projections, deep shadows, and irregular 
outlines. Rustic baskets, and similar ornaments, may 
abound near the house, and in the more frequented parts 
of the place. 
The recognition of art, as Loudon justly observes, is a 
first principle in Landscape Gardening, as in all other arts ; 
and those of its professors have erred, who supposed that 
the object of this art is merely to produce a fac-simile of 
nature, that could not be distinguished from a wild scene. 
But we contend that this principle may be fully attained 
with either expression — the picturesque cottage being as 
well a work of art as the classic villa ; its baskets, and 
seats of rustic work, indicating the hand of man as well 
as the marble vase and balustrade ; and a walk, sometimes 
narrow and crooked, is as certainly recognised as man’s 
work, as one always regular and flowing. Foreign trees 
of picturesque growth are as readily obtained as those of 
beautiful forms. The recognition of art is, therefore, 
always apparent in both modes. The evidences are 
indeed stronger and more multiplied in the careful polish 
of the Beautiful landscape,* and hence many prefer this 
* The beau ideal in Landscape Gardening, as a fine art, appears to us to be 
embraced in the creation of scenery full of expression, as the beautiful or pic- 
turesque, the materials of which are, to a certain extent, different from those in 
wild nature, being composed of the floral and arboriculturij riches of all climates, 
as far as possible ; uniting in the same scene, a richness and a variety never to 
