The word Gardening misapplied.-By a strange perversion of terms, what is called modern, or English gardening, seldom includes the useful garden, and has changed the name of the ornamental garden into pleasure ground. But it is not the name only that has been changed; the character of a garden is now lost in that of the surrounding park, and it is only on the map that they can be distinguished; while an invisible fence marks the separation between the cheerful lawn fed by cattle, and the melancholy lawn kept by the rollor and the scythe. Although these lawns are actually divided by a barrier as impassable as the ancient garden wall, yet they are apparently united in the same landscape, and, ---------- "wrapt all o'er in everlasting green, Make one dull, vapid, smooth and tranquil scene." R. P. KNIGHT.
