THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Kenwood * the residence of Joel Rathbone. —(Fig. 29.) 
genuine beauties, is strikingly exhibited in an extract | 
from a satire of Pope, who, in common with all truepo-| 
ets, shrunk with aversion from the sight of trees drilled 
rank and tile into straight lines, and sheared down to py¬ 
ramids and statues of verdure; 
“ Inventory of a Virtuoso Gardener Adam and Eve in yew; 
Adam, a little shattered by the tree of knowledge in the J 
great storm; Eve and the serpent, very flourishing. No¬ 
ah’s ark in Holly; the ribs a little damaged for want of | 
water 
The tower of Babel; not yet finished. 
St. George, in box; his arm scarce long enough, but will be 
in a condition to stick the dragon by next April. 
Edward the Black Prince in Cypress. 
A pair of giants stunted, to be sold cheap. 
An old maid of honor, in wormwood. 
A quick-set hog, shot up into a porcupine, by being forgot a 
week in rainy weather.” 
All these contrivances, and fifty others similar, and dis¬ 
similar, including concealed pipes for suddenly dousing 
visitors with cold water, and including also many of the 
statues, busts, and other objects too common at the pre¬ 
sent time, were very correctly characterized by Lord Ba¬ 
con where he said, “ as for the making of knots or fig¬ 
ures of divers colored earths, that they may lie under the 
windows of the house, they be but toys; you may see as 
good sights many times in tarts. I, for my part, do not 
like images cut out in juniperand other garden stuff; they 
are for children.” How much more worthy of the at¬ 
tention of an enlightened mind, is the simple imitation 
of the beautiful and picturesque, by a handsome and na¬ 
tural arrangement of majestic trees, adapted to the cha¬ 
racter of the grounds. 
In urging the application of the principles of correct 
taste, even for very small places, the author has the fol¬ 
lowing excellent remarks: 
“ But if Landscape Gardening, in its proper sense, can¬ 
not be applied to the embellishment of the smallest cot¬ 
tage residences in the country, its principles may be stu¬ 
died with advantage, even by him who has only three 
trees to plant for ornament; and we hope no one will 
think his grounds too small to feel willing to add some¬ 
thing to the general amount of beauty in the country. If 
the possessor of the cottage acre, would embellish in ac¬ 
cordance with propriety, he must not, as we have some¬ 
times seen, render the whole ridiculous by aiming at am¬ 
bitious and costly embellishments; but he will rather 
seek to delight us by the good taste evinced in the taste¬ 
ful simplicity of the whole arrangement. And if the pro¬ 
prietors of our country villas, in their improvements, are 
more likely to run into any one error than another, we 
’ Situate about two miles south of Albany, on a densely wooded hill, 
and is one of the most complete specimens of the Tudor style in the 
United States. It was built from the designs of Davis, and is, to the 
amateur, a very instructive example of this mode of domestic archi¬ 
tecture.— k>. 370. 
fear it will be that of too great a desire for display—too 
many vases, temples and seats—and too little purity and 
simplicity of general effect.” 
Again, in speaking of the cottage ornie , and of laying 
out and embellishing limited grounds, he says: 
“ In making these arrangements, even in the small area 
of a fourth of an acre, we should study the same princi¬ 
ples, and endeavor to produce the same harmony of ef¬ 
fects, as if we were improving a mansion residence of 
thfe first class. The extent of the operations, and the 
sums lavished, are not by any means necessarily connect¬ 
ed with successful and pleasing results. The man of 
correct taste, will, by the aid of very limited means, and 
upon a small surface, be able to afford the mind more 
true pleasure, than the improver who lavishes thousands 
without it, creating no other emotion than surprise or 
pity at the useless expenditure incurred.” It is in accor¬ 
dance with these principles that the author very properly 
places this motto upon his title-page: 
“ Insult not nature with absurd expense, 
Nor spoil her simple chartns by vain pretence; 
Weigh well the subject, be with caution bold, 
Profuse of genius, not profuse of gold.” 
The wide extent of many of the English parks—though 
affording some of the finest specimens of the modern 
style of landscape gardening,—where sometimes a broad 
and magnificent landscape is embraced within the limits 
of a single park-—we hope never to see imitated in this 
country, especially if at the same cost of human happiness. 
For W'e cannot regard these, even in all their glory, with 
their wide-spread undulating lawns, their majestic trees, 
marked with the age of centuries, and embellished with 
all the beauty of nature, and all the poetry of association 
—without secret pain and aversion, from the recollection 
of the thousands of poor laborers, tasked to their utmost 
strength to support their starving and suffering families, 
while a large share of their toils go to the support of these 
costly establishments. While, on the other hand, it is s 
source of much gratification that such drawbacks do not 
exist in our own region of the country, we hope the spi¬ 
rit of republican simplicity will always so prevail, that 
while it teaches us to cultivate a taste for natural and ru¬ 
ral beauty, we may always shun extravagant profusion 
and ostentatious display; and use without abusing the 
creations of the source, ‘‘ who made all nature beauty to 
the eye, and music to the ear.” It is with great justice 
that the author remarks, 
“ The owner of a small cottage residence, may have 
almost every kind of beauty and enjoyment in his 
grounds, that the largest estate will afford, so far as re¬ 
gards the interest of trees and plants, tasteful arrange¬ 
ment, recreation and occupation. Indeed, we have lit¬ 
tle doubt that he, who directs personally, the curve of 
every walk, selects and plants every shrub and tree, ane? 
