The Praise of Gardens An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden Art
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) ^ ADAM -^HE circumstances of gardeners, generally mean, and always ^72^^700) moderate, may satisfy us that their great ingenuity is not commonly over-recompenced. Their delightful art is practised by so many rich people for amusement, that little advantage is to be made by those who practise it for profit ; because the persons who should naturally be their best customers, supply themselves with all their most precious productions. — The Nature afid Causes of the Wealth of Nations. — A/WV^ — W...ILLIAM Owner of a school at Cheain ; Rector of Boldre, near New Forest ; author of GILPIN Lives of Bernard Gilpin, Cranmer, Wycliffe, and others; also of *■ Forest (1724- 1 804). Scenery, ^ ''Essay 07i Prints, ^ and many vohwies on Picturesqtie Beauty and Travels in the British Isles, from the year 1776, with his own illustrations ; his name is generally joined with those of Uvedale Price and Payne Knight on the * Picturesque ' side of the Cont^-oversy with the ' Improvers ' and Land- scape Gardeners, * Capability ' Brown and ' Amenity ' Repton.
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