As the lands devoted to agriculture in England were, sooner than in any other country in Europe, generally enclosed with hedges and hedgerow trees; so the face of the country in England, sooner than in any other part of Europe, produced an appearance which here a close resemblance to country seats laid out in the geometrical style: and, for this reason, an attempt to imitate the irregularity of nature, in laying out pleasure-grounds, was made in England, with some trifling exceptions, sooner than in any other part of the world; and hence the style became generally known as English gardening. The English, or natural style of gardening, was first called landscape-gardening by Shenstone; it was also called natural gardening by Bosc, Chinese gardening by Sir W. Chambers, and picturesque gardening by Gabriel Thouin; though none of these authors, unless we except Chambers, attempted to give a correct definition of what they meant by the terms they used. The words landscape-gardening are evidently applicable to the geometrical style, as well as to the natural style; because landscapes are produced by both: but these landscapes differ in being, in the former case, a geometrical disposition of walks and beds, and, in the latter, an imitation by the hand of man, of natural scenery.