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in parks, are not in chara6ter with a lawn,
or with fuch drefled ground as artificial wa-
ter is generaliy made in. This opinion I
wifli to examine; for the notion that a iawn,
or any meadow, or pafture ground near the
houfe, ought to be kept quite open and ciear
from any kind of thickets, has been one very
principal caufe of the barenefs I have fo
often had occafion to cenfure. It is not inx-
probabie that the firft idea of a iawn may
have arifen from the openings of various
fizes which are found in forefts and oid
parks, and that thefe openings were the
original cbjecfts of imitation; in copying
which, improvers have had the fame degree
of fuccefs, as in their imitations of natural
rivers, and from the fame caufe,—that of
never ftudying their models. If it be true,
that many of thefe foreft lawns have every
variety that can be wiflied for in the
difpofition of their boundaries, in their
groups,
in parks, are not in chara6ter with a lawn,
or with fuch drefled ground as artificial wa-
ter is generaliy made in. This opinion I
wifli to examine; for the notion that a iawn,
or any meadow, or pafture ground near the
houfe, ought to be kept quite open and ciear
from any kind of thickets, has been one very
principal caufe of the barenefs I have fo
often had occafion to cenfure. It is not inx-
probabie that the firft idea of a iawn may
have arifen from the openings of various
fizes which are found in forefts and oid
parks, and that thefe openings were the
original cbjecfts of imitation; in copying
which, improvers have had the fame degree
of fuccefs, as in their imitations of natural
rivers, and from the fame caufe,—that of
never ftudying their models. If it be true,
that many of thefe foreft lawns have every
variety that can be wiflied for in the
difpofition of their boundaries, in their
groups,