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The picturesque landscape garden, also called the English landscape garden, English landscape park, or simply the English garden (French: Jardin à l'anglaise, Italian: Giardino all'inglese, German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Portuguese: Jardim inglês, Spanish: Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century with influence from Chinese garden traditions, and spread across Europe. It replaced the more geometric and symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe. The picturesque garden emphasized irregularity and apparent randomness in its features of rocks, ruins, meandering streams and pathways. The term, "picturesque," reflects the aesthetic origins of the garden style in paintings of landscapes by Salvator Rosa, Claude Lorrain, and Nicolas Poussin.

Created and pioneered by William Kent and others