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beautiful young peach trees raised from layers, and no doubt many 
other fruit trees may be so propagated, which would be very soon fruit¬ 
ful, and consequently of very moderate growth, well fitted, however, 
for low walls or any limited space where such trees may be required. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
THE LANDSCAPE GARDENER, COMPRISING THE HISTORY AND 
PRINCIPLES OF TASTEFUL HORTICULTURE. 
BY J. DENNIS, B. C. L., PREBENDARY OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF EXETER CASTLE ; 
AND AUTHOR OF “ THE KEY OF THE REGALIA,” “ ARCHITECTURA SACRA,” 
&C., &C. J. RIDGYVAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY, 1835. 
Landscape gardening is now advanced to the rank of one of the 
fine arts, and placed next to landscape painting. It can only be 
treated of by those who can wield a classical pen. To infuse the 
principles of landscape painting into the practice and dispositions 
of the gardener, has long ago been tried by many eminent writers, 
but, as it would seem, with but partial success. Either the percep¬ 
tions of the gardener were too obtuse or the principles of the painter 
were inapplicable. On this point, different opinions are held; some 
affirming that the painter’s ideas are in every case easily applied, 
while others assert the contrary. The learned author of the volume 
before us, embraces the affirmative side of the question, and has 
written the book to show how such things may be managed so as to 
produce the very effects which would be approved by the painter, and 
admired by every beholder. In this he has succeeded as well as any 
previous writer on the subject; and considering the impossibility 
of transferring fine taste by precepts, the rules which should guide the 
artist in forming garden scenery are laid down as explicitly and 
minutely as the subject admits of. 
To every one wishing acquaintance with the history and changes of 
style in landscape gardening, the book will be most useful; and to 
those wishing to embellish their paternal acres no better directory can 
be had. 
The author expatiates much on the great interest which may be 
created by a judicious intermixture of various tinted plants in forming 
ornamental plantations of either trees or flowering shrubs, and shows 
the great advantage of so disposing them in order to produce striking 
contrasts, or harmonious associations. 
Some of the author’s descriptions are highly amusing. In looking 
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