Landscape Gardening, like all other arts, is not free from ignorant pretenders to knowledge, who, without a spark of appreciation for the beautiful in nature, boldly undertake to remodel, in what they consider a tasteful and fashionable style, every piece of natural landscape, whether of a simple or highly picturesque character. They succeed in leaving behind them, on the places they attempt to improve, indubitable marks of their footsteps, in a sort of labored ease, and stiff striving after grace; but they are pretty certain, also, to &&& obliterate in a great degree, the natural charm of any fine situation. We have seen one or two examples lately where a foreign soi-disant landscape gardener has completely spoiled the simple grand beauty of a fine river residence, by cutting up the breadth of a fine lawn with a ridiculous effort at what he considered a very charming arrangement of walks and groups of trees. In this case he only followed a mode sufficiently common and appropriate in a level inland country, like that of Germany, from whence he introduced it, but entirely out of keeping with the bold and lake-like features of the landscape which he thus made discordant.