It would be difficult to select a more striking passage from any author on gardening than the following from Sir Uvedale Price's noble work on the picturesque:

"According to the idea I have formed of it, intricacy in landscape might be defined, that disposition of objects, which, by a partial and uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity. Many persons, who take little concern in the intricacy of oaks, beeches and thorns, may feel the effect of partial concealment in more interesting objects, and may have experienced how differently the passions are moved by an open licentious display of beauties, and by the unguarded disorder which sometimes escapes the care of modesty, and which coquetry so successfully imitates. Variety can hardly require a definition, though from the practice of many layers-out of ground, one might suppose it did. Upon the whole it appears to me, that as intricacy in the disposition, and variety in the forms, the tints and the lights and shadows of objects, are the great characteristics of picturesque scenery; so monotony and baldness are the great defects of improved places".