. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. GARDENING IN CHINA. 103 of caprice and whim; and when we reflect on their buildings, presents no image but that of unsubstantial ; 474. Lord Macartney s remarks on these gardens show, that at least picturesque scenes are seen from
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. GARDENING IN CHINA. 103 of caprice and whim; and when we reflect on their buildings, presents no image but that of unsubstantial ; 474. Lord Macartney s remarks on these gardens show, that at least picturesque scenes are seen from them. " The view," he says, " from one of the imperial gardens mi^ht be compared to that from the terrace at Lowther ; This view is altogether wild and romantic, and bounded by high uncultivated mountains, with no other buildings than one or two native cottages. In what degree of estimation such a view is there held does not, however, appear ; it would be too much to conclude that, because it existed in that situation, it had been created or left on purpose, or was con- sidered as eminently beautiful or desirable. " It is our excellence," observes his lordship, " to improve nature ; that of a Chinese gardener to conquer her : his aim is to change every thing from what he found it. A waste he adorns with trees ; a desert he waters with a river or a lake ; and on a smooth flat are raised hills, hollowed out valleys, and placed all sorts of ; 475. The description of the gardens of Woo-yuen in Ellis's Journal of the late Embassy to China, 1818, is as follows : " We stopped opposite the gardens of Woo-yuen, which, after a little hesitation on the part of the mandarins, we were allowed to visit. Although now much neglected, they were interesting as a specimen of Chinese garden- ing. The Chinese are certainly good imitators of nature, and their piles of rocks are not liable to the same ridicule as some modern Gothic ruins
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