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Book: An inquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening, 1806
Chapter: Part I. Historical Notices.

Landscape park scenery

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Park Scenery. -When, by this false taste for extent, parks had become enlarged beyond all reasonable bounds of prudence and economy in the occupation, it then became advisable to allot large portions of land for the purposes of agriculture, within the belt or outline of this useless and extravagant inclosure; and thus great part of the interior of a park is become an arable farm. Hence arises the necessity of contracting that portion of an estate, in which beauty, rather than profit, is to be considered.