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GARDENING and Ch. XXIV.
By a judicious distribution os trees, other beau-
ties may be produced. A landscape so rich as to
ingross the whole attention, and so limited as
sweetly to be comprehended under a single view ,
has a much finer effect than the most extensive
landscape that requires a wandering of the eye
through successive scenes. This observation sug-
gests a capital rule in laying out a field ; which is,
never at any one station to admit a larger prospeit
than can easily be taken in at once. A field so
happily situated as to command a great extent of
prosp.edt, is a delightful subjeft for applying this
rule: let the prospedl be spiit into proper parts by
means of trees ; Undying at the same time to in-
troduce all the variety poslible. A plan of this
kind executed with ,tasle will produce charming
essects: the beautiful prospefls are multiplied:
each os them is much more agreeable than the
entire prospedi was originally : and , to crown the
whole, the scenery is greatly diversified.
As gardening is not an inventive art, but an
imitation of nature, or rather nature itself orna-
mented ; it follows necessarily, that every thing
•unnatural ought to be rejefled with disdain, Sta-
tues of wild beasts vomiting water , a common or-
nament in gardens, prevail in those os Versailles.
Is that ornament in a good taste ? A jet d'eau ,
being purely artificial, may, without disgust , be tor-
tured into a thousand lhapes; but a representation
of what really exists in nature , admits not any un-
GARDENING and Ch. XXIV.
By a judicious distribution os trees, other beau-
ties may be produced. A landscape so rich as to
ingross the whole attention, and so limited as
sweetly to be comprehended under a single view ,
has a much finer effect than the most extensive
landscape that requires a wandering of the eye
through successive scenes. This observation sug-
gests a capital rule in laying out a field ; which is,
never at any one station to admit a larger prospeit
than can easily be taken in at once. A field so
happily situated as to command a great extent of
prosp.edt, is a delightful subjeft for applying this
rule: let the prospedl be spiit into proper parts by
means of trees ; Undying at the same time to in-
troduce all the variety poslible. A plan of this
kind executed with ,tasle will produce charming
essects: the beautiful prospefls are multiplied:
each os them is much more agreeable than the
entire prospedi was originally : and , to crown the
whole, the scenery is greatly diversified.
As gardening is not an inventive art, but an
imitation of nature, or rather nature itself orna-
mented ; it follows necessarily, that every thing
•unnatural ought to be rejefled with disdain, Sta-
tues of wild beasts vomiting water , a common or-
nament in gardens, prevail in those os Versailles.
Is that ornament in a good taste ? A jet d'eau ,
being purely artificial, may, without disgust , be tor-
tured into a thousand lhapes; but a representation
of what really exists in nature , admits not any un-