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Book: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America,1841
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Section 2 The beauties of landscape gardening

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SECTION II. BEAUTIES OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Capacities of the art, p. 61. The beauties of the ancient style, p. 62. The Beautiful and the Picturesque; their distinctive characteristics, with illustrations drawn from nature and painting, p. 63. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as an imitative art, p. 66. The Production of Beautiful Landscape, 67. Of Picturesque do., 68. Simple beauty of the art, p. 78. T he principles of Unity, Harmony, and Variety, p. 80.