It was evident, in the present instance, that every attempt to increase the apparent extent of ground on these principles must have betrayed its real confinement; while, on the contrary, I trust it will appear, that, if there were a thousand acres attached to the Pavillon, such a garden as is here described, would not reasonably occupy more than five or six. Although it may at first appear that the following observations are more especially applicable to the garden of a palace, under peculiar circumstances of confinement, yet they may be extended to every other place, from the ornamented cottage to the most superb mansion; since every residence of elegance or affluence requires its garden scenery; the beauty and propriety of which belong to art rather than to nature. In forest scenery, we trace the sketches of SALVATOR and of RIDINGER; in park scenery, we may realize the landscapes of CLAUDE and POUSSIN: but, in garden scenery, we delight in the rich embellishments, the blended graces of WATTEAU, where nature is dressed, but not disfigured, by art; and where the artificial decorations of architecture and sculpture are softened down by natural accompaniments of vegetation. In the park and forest, let the painter be indulged with the most picturesque objects for his pencil to imitate; let the sportsman be gratified with rough coverts and impenetrable thickets; let the active mind be soothed with all the beauty of landscape, and the contemplative mind roused by all the sublimity of prospect that nature can produce; but we must also provide artificial scenes, less wild, though not less interesting, for ------------" Retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure."-MILTON.
