effective method. There is but one fault in this garden, which is its being placed near the house, where there should be nothing but lawn and scattered trees when viewed from the Chateau.Travels in France, 1787-9. SIR 1780, Translated Pausanias: his various works on the Picturesque, Beauty UVEDALE and Landscape were collected in one volume by Sir T. D. Lauder in 1842. PRICE MAY perhaps have spoken more feelingly on this subject, from having done myself what I so condemn in others-destroyed an old-fashioned garden. . . . 1747-1829). I I remember, that even this garden (so infinitely inferior to those of Italy) had an air of decoration, and of gaiety, arising from that decoration-un air paré-a distinction from mere unimbellished nature, which, whatever the advocates for extreme simplicity may allege, is surely essential to an ornamented garden : all the beauties of undulating ground, of shrubs, and of verdure are to be found in places where no art has ever been employed, and consequently cannot bestow a distinction which they do not possess. Among other circumstances, I have a strong recollection of a raised terrace, seen sideways from that in front of the house, in the middle of which was a flight of steps with its iron rails, and an arched recess below it backed by a wood: these steps conducted you from the terrace to a lower compartment, where there was a mixture of fruit-trees, shrubs, and statues, disposed, indeed, with some formality, yet which formed a dressed foreground to the woods; and with a little alteration would have richly and happily blended with the general landscape. . . . I regret extremely, not only the compartment I have just mentioned, but another garden immediately beyond it: and I cannot forget the sort of curiosity and surprise that was excited after a short absence, even in me to whom it was familiar, by the simple and common circumstance of a door that led from the first compartment to the second, and the pleasure I always experienced on entering that inner and more secluded garden. There was nothing, however, in the garden itself to excite any |