Charms of landscape gardening

All who enjoy the charms of Landscape Gardening, may perhaps be divided into three classes: those who have arrived only at certain primitive ideas of beauty which are found in regular forms and straight lines; those who in the Beautiful seek for the highest and most perfect development of the idea in the material form; and those who in the Picturesque enjoy most a certain wild and incomplete harmony between the idea and the forms in which it is expressed. As the two latter classes embrace the whole range of modern Landscape Gardening, we shall keep distinctly in view their two governing principles-the Beautiful and the Picturesque, in treating of the practice of the art.