Gilpin, William S.: Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery (London: Cadell [u.a.], 1835)

PLANTING.

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to admit of no exception; and is at least as
severe as any thing the writer of it can find
in Price, whose severity he censures. Where
the author of the Planter’s Guide has met
with these grotesque figures, these hideous
and unpicturesque productions, he has not told
us; nor have I, in a tolerably extensive range
of observation, discovered a single example
of them.

The conclusion of this long note, as tran-
scribed from the Planter’s Guide, has, I con-
fess, puzzled me extremely in my attempt to
discover any support it affords to the object
of the note itself, — the propriety of circles
and ovals as applied to plantations. The
passage runs thus : —
“ It is to be hoped that there is discern-
“ ment enough in our present race of artists
“ to see the propriety of adopting or restor-
“ ing those fine figures, the oval and the
“ circle, as certainly the best for temporary
“ and large detached masses of wood. And
“ now that all controversy between hostile
“ systems is at an end, I trust that the En-
“ glish Garden, distinguished by simplicity
“ and freedom, will henceforth be under no
“ law but that of Nature, improved and