That Mr. Repton succeeded in this, his laudable ambition, can be denied by none who remember him in the days of his celebrity, when he was looked up to, by the highest ranks of society, as the acknowledged arbiter of taste, from whose fiat there was no appeal. The name of "Landscape Gardener" may now, indeed, be considered as "one of no small pretensions," since it is expected that he who so calls himself, should be a person not only gifted by Nature with the love of all that is beautiful, but that culture and education should have refined his taste, and improved his powers of judgment; while a knowledge of the habits of polished life, to be acquired only by an admittance into the best society, must have taught him how to combine those thousand little nameless circumstances which render the mansions and surrounding pleasure-grounds of our "Homes of England" the admiration of all who can appreciate that truly English word "comfortable."
