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

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44 air, like a country wench’s gown tucked
44 through her pocket holes, in the days when
44 such things as pockets were extant in rerum
44 naturd. In other cases of enormity, the
“ unhappy plantations have been made to
44 assume the form of pincushions, of hatchets,
44 of penny tarts, and of breeches displayed at
44 an old clothesraan’s door. These abortions
44 have been the consequence of a resolution
44 to occupy with trees only those parts of
44 the hill where nothing else will grow; and
44 which, therefore, is carved out for their
44 accommodation with 4 up and down and
44 4 snip and slash,’ whatever unnatural and
44 fantastic forms may be thereby assigned to
44 their boundaries.
44 In all such cases, the insulated trees, de-
44 prived of the shelter they experience when
44 planted in masses, have grown thin and
44 hungrily — affording the unhappy planter
44 neither pleasure to his eye, credit to his
44 judgment, nor profit to his purse. A more
44 liberal projector would have adopted a very
44 different plan. He would have considered,
44 that although trees, the noblest production
44 of the vegetable realm, are of a nature
44 extremely hardy, and can grow where not