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greens, the contrast of forms between our forest trees and the northern and West-Indian firs and pines, are i provements more recent than rent, or but little known to him. The weeping-willow and every florid shrub, each tree of delicate or bold leaf, are now tints in the coupsoition of our gardens. The last century was certainly acquainted with many of those rare plants we now admire. The Teymouth pine has long been naturalized here; the patriarch plant still exists at Longleat. The light and graceful acacia was known as early; witness those ancient ste.s in the court of Bedford-house in Bloomsbury-square; and in the bishop of London's garden at Fulham are any exotics of very ancient date. I doubt therefore whether the difficulty of preserving them in a clie so foreign to their nature did not convince our ance tors of their inutility in enoral; unless the shapeliness of the line and horse-chestnut, which accorded so well with established regularity, and which thence and from their novelty grew in fashion, die not occasion the neglect of the curious plants.

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But just as the encomiun are that I have bostowed on Kent's discoveries, he was neither without assistance or faults. Mr. Fope undoubtedly contributed to form his taste. The design of the Trince of Wales's garden at Carlton-house was evidently borrowed from the poet's at Twickenham. There was a little of affected nodesty in the latter, when he said, of all his works he was ost proud of is garden. And yet it was a singular effort of art and taste to impress so much variety and scenery on a spot of five acres. The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again asse.bling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemenity of the termination at the cypresses that 1 ad up to his mother's tomb, sro Lanaged with exquisite judgment; and though Lord Peterborough assisted hin

To form his quincunx and to rank his vines,

those were not the most pleasing ingredients of his little perspective. I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Roushan, laid out for General Dorner, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Ir. Tope's, at least in the opening and rotiring shades of Venus's vale. The whole in as elegant and antique as if the orporfor Julian had selected the host pleasing solitude about Daphne to enjoy a philosophic retiro ent.

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That Kent's ideas were but rarely creat, was in se measure owing to the novelty of his art. It would have been difficult to have transported the style of gardening at once from a few acres to tumbling of forests and though new fashions like new religions, (which are now far ions) often lead men to the most opposite excosses, it could not be the case in gardening, wyere the experiments would have been so expensive. true too that the features in Kent's landskips wore seldom clumps were puny, he aimed at immediate effect, ani planted for for fuburity. Pne sees no largo woods ksetched out by his direction. lor are we yet entirely rism above a too creat frequency of s.all clips, pecially in the elbows of sexpontine rivers. How co on to see the or four beeches, then as many larches, a third knot of cypresses, and a revolution of all three! Kent's last designs were in a higher style, as his id as opened on success. The north terras at clare..ont was much superior to the rest of the garden. Vide Lord Orford on Hodern Carloning.

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