Every person the least interested in this study, must have read the beautiful "Poems of Mason," and "De Lisle," the "Oriental Gardening of Sir William Chambers," and the "Observations on Modern Gardening, by Mr. Whately;" but, perhaps, few have seen that elaborate performance, in five volumes quarto, published in German, and also in French, under the title of "Theorie de l'Art des Jardins, par M. Hirschfeld," a work in which are collected extracts from almost every book, in every European language, that has any reference to the scenery of nature, or to the art of landscape gardening *.
*[If I were to enumerate all those who have occasionally mentioned gardening as a relative subject of taste, I should hardly omit the name of any author, either ancient or modern. Some of the most ingenious hints, and even some just principles in the art, are to be found in the works of Theocritus, Homer, Virgil, Petrarch, Rousseau, Voltaire, Temple, Bacon, Addison, Home, Gilpin, Allison, &c.]
[Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld, CCL Hirshfeld, published his Theory of Garden Art from 1779 to 1785, TT]
