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GARDEN SCENERY, 
THE EMBELLISHMENT OF GARDEN SCENERY, 
WITH AN ENGRAVING. 
In the present advancing state of horticulture, the embellishment 
of garden scenery becomes a study of such essential importance 
and frequent application, that it is almost impossible to overrate 
its consequence, or to insist too forcibly on the large amount of 
attention which should be devoted to its consideration, especially 
by all professional men who design to raise themselves above the 
commonest mediocrity. The indifference with which the subject 
is too generally treated is much to be deplored; and we are sur¬ 
prised that more united and really energetic endeavours are not 
made to direct and raise a more refined taste, both among pro¬ 
prietors and those whose occupation leads them constantly where 
examples abound, and opportunity for tests occurs. 
The bare laying out of a garden requires, perhaps, more sound 
judgment and forethought, together with an intimate acquaint¬ 
ance with the dependent blending and harmonious laws which de¬ 
termine natural consequences, than very many who undertake to 
direct such operations are aware of. Instead of the proper and 
immutable principles required as a basis to the work, they have 
mere empirical rules, or meagre copies torn and distorted to suit 
the immediate circumstances; and thus it is we so often observe 
the simplest laws of nature subverted or entirely overlooked. 
Disappointment and apathy consequently ensue, and the science 
receives an entailed injury. It is true a great deal has been done 
for the desired advancement of this taste, in the labours of the 
late Mr. Repton, Mr. Loudon, and Sir Uvedale Price; and what¬ 
ever improvement is discernible in the existing style, over that 
of the preceding century, may fairly be attributed to their able 
writings. Yet much—very much—more remains to be effected, 
that will require long-continued and strenuous exertions on the 
part of those who possess the means, before we can hope to wit¬ 
ness the entire banishment of the many incongruities which at 
present prevail. 
There is, perhaps, no part of the art of landscape gardening so 
little understood or appreciated as the application of water to or¬ 
namental purposes ; and this is the more remarkable from the 
