...the prseterperfect participle, from lay. Lain if (torn /in.- jt Wa8 formerly wntteu li'.'i. — H. bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, tut, for my Dwn part, I would rather look upon a trew in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs...

...an account of Levens, with a plate of the Topiarian garden, see "Archaeological Jouinal," vol. xxvi. it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids ; we see the mark of the scissors upon every plant and bush." But this is a digression : I must return to the Elizabethan...

...anecdotes : "Mr. Addison stayed above a year at Blois. He would rise as 1 Compare Spectator, 414. " I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my part I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, rather...

...at Versailles : — " The painter has represented his most Xtian Majesty i Compare Spectator 414. " I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my part I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxnriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, rather...

...occasional tree left to grow in its own wild and graceful way. " Our British gardeners," wrote Addison,* " instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from...Cones, Globes, and Pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every Plant and Bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my Opinion, but, for my...

...first Sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an Effect, Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love...Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush, I do not know whether I am singular in my Opinion, but, for my...

...statues, statues thick as trees " ; Addison wrote in the Spectator, June 25, 1712: "Our British gardeners, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in globes, cones, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know...

...even walls, or into fantastic groups of men and animals. " Our trees," complains the " Spectator," " rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush." An amusing catalogue of the effects of an eminent town gardener is contained in a number of the " Guardian."...

...Spectator, saying, "In laying out a Garden we are to copy Nature as much as possible. Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible." Pope, the most artificial and the wittiest of writers, soon followed suit in the Guardian, and he lashed...

...and in Scotland. As illustrating the second proposition, after remarking that. British gardeners, " instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible," and that "our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids," he declares his own liking for a tree grown...