Contents of Section 2

Capacities of the art. The beauties of the ancient style. The modern style. The Beautiful and the Picturesque: their distinctive characteristics. Illustrations drawn from Nature and Painting. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as an Imitative art. Distinction between the Beautiful and Picturesque. The principles of Unity, Harmony, and Variety. "Here Nature in her unaffected dresse, Plaited with vallies and imbost with hills, Enchast with silver streams, and fringed with woods Sits lovely."- CHAMBERLAYNE.