. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . givesa graceful outline to the scene ? The distance asunder must be carefully con-sidered, or the unison in producing effect will be lost. The most pendulous orinclining forms must be left for the exterior of the groups, and so forth. AVhile the painter was studying nature only, the gardener, in the infancy ofwhat is now called landscape-gardening, busied himself in cutting and slashingvegetation into all the most whimsical regular figures his ingenuity could , with its lines and rules, was his text-book, while the
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . givesa graceful outline to the scene ? The distance asunder must be carefully con-sidered, or the unison in producing effect will be lost. The most pendulous orinclining forms must be left for the exterior of the groups, and so forth. AVhile the painter was studying nature only, the gardener, in the infancy ofwhat is now called landscape-gardening, busied himself in cutting and slashingvegetation into all the most whimsical regular figures his ingenuity could , with its lines and rules, was his text-book, while the artist seized uponnature in all her varied forms, and habits, and hues, exhibiting her as she appearedon the mountain steep, or in the secluded dell, l)y the reedy river-side, on themargin of the placid lake, or on the umbrageous hill. Thus, at the same time, were painters and gardeners employed ; each occupiedby the same objects ; the one forming real, the other painted scenery, but with ,r ^%A.^Mi- .3^ ^^^ i*,»; #i; ^. ,.j.^s-{|,.JM!xiW^T5<i^|^!».l!ll. 1^ ^^t;^*^ ,~-^V^*w^ -a*- i»>^<*!***^ ^•J^^-^-a ^i^
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