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scape Gardening. This we attributed to the tact 
that, while an Architect was employed to build the 
house, no professional artist was employed to arrange 
the grounds, and great errors and mistakes constantly 
occurred — in many cases so gross, as to destroy the en- 
tire effect of what would be otherwise a very fine and 
attractive place. 
Although there has been great expenditure of money 
in country houses and costly glass-buildings, during the 
past ten years, yet, in a great many cases, very inferior ar- 
rangement and planting has been exhibited in the grounds. 
Landscape Gardening is just as much, a picture, though a 
living one, made by trees, as a painted landscape is made 
by the pencil or brush ; both require long years of study, 
artistic perceptions, and a knowledge of how to handle 
the tools. It would be quite as unreasonable, we think, 
to expect one of our merchants or lawyers, in active 
business, to make a landscape, as to paint one. How 
can a person who has passed his life in the whirl and 
excitement of active business, or professional occupa- 
tions, be suddenly transferred to the country and be 
expected to make a garden ? It would be just as ab- 
surd as to expect that a gardener can be transferred to 
the counting-room, and become, the next day, a merchant. 
It is quite as necessary in the one case as in the 'other 
to be educated up to whatever you are to succeed in. 
It requires more and different qualities to make a 
country-place than are required for any other profession. 
For while industry, knowledge, prudence, sagacity, are 
generally all that are necessary for a merchant, or law- 
yer, or doctor, the Landscape Gardener must have not 
only these but also taste — a knowledge of the beautiful, 
and a perception of the harmony of form and color ; in 
other words, he must be an artist. 
The fashion of living in the country has not existed long 
enough (though rapidly increasing) for this knowledge or 
taste to have been very widely extended ; for every good 
