The art of landscape gardening . removed, although others may be placed in moresuitable directions. [Plate xiv.] I am aware that, in the prevailing rage for agricul-ture, it is unpopular to assert that a farm and a parkmay not be united; but after various efforts to blendthe two, without violation of good taste, I am convincedthat they are and must be distinct objects, and oughtnever to be brought together in the same point of view. To guard against misrepresentation, let me be allowedto say each may fill its appropriate station in a gentle-mans estate; we do not wish to banish the nectarinefr
The art of landscape gardening . removed, although others may be placed in moresuitable directions. [Plate xiv.] I am aware that, in the prevailing rage for agricul-ture, it is unpopular to assert that a farm and a parkmay not be united; but after various efforts to blendthe two, without violation of good taste, I am convincedthat they are and must be distinct objects, and oughtnever to be brought together in the same point of view. To guard against misrepresentation, let me be allowedto say each may fill its appropriate station in a gentle-mans estate; we do not wish to banish the nectarinefrom our desserts, although we plant out the wall whichprotects it; nor would I expunge the common farmfrom the pleasures of the country, though I cannot en-courage its motley hues and domestic occupations todisturb the repose of park scenery. It is the union notthe existence of beauty and profit, of laborious exertionand pleasurable recreation, against which I wouldinterpose the influence of my art; nor let the fastidious ?4K». Farm
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