. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . fan^stnp in Connection toiti] iru llimting, U0. 2. OTWITHSTANDING Kents mistakes, so manycountry-seats were capable of great improvementby merely clearing away redundant formality, thepainters ideas were not entirely neglected, and, ac-cordingly, improvement by abstraction, as it hasbeen expressed, became the vogue. A sweepingsentence was soon pronounced against every rightine and right angle. The Dutch and Italian designsquickly disappeared. The venerable avenues wereuprooted; the airy terrace, with its verdant slopes,were levell
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . fan^stnp in Connection toiti] iru llimting, U0. 2. OTWITHSTANDING Kents mistakes, so manycountry-seats were capable of great improvementby merely clearing away redundant formality, thepainters ideas were not entirely neglected, and, ac-cordingly, improvement by abstraction, as it hasbeen expressed, became the vogue. A sweepingsentence was soon pronounced against every rightine and right angle. The Dutch and Italian designsquickly disappeared. The venerable avenues wereuprooted; the airy terrace, with its verdant slopes,were levelled with the general surface of the ground ;all the nicely clipped hedges and arcades, the pyra-mids and globes—all were banished from the lawnand gardens; insulated clumps replaced the hedge-row trees. The regularity of the old style was recklessly proscribed, to admit the irregu-larity of the new, and thousands of places were sacrificed. Even Sir TJvedalePrice was infected with the mania, and ever after regretted his hasty operations;he admitted that to de
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