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to grow of themfelves, as if they were wild : 

 in fome forts of trees they make ufe of gsaft- 

 ing, at which they are very expert. 



GARDENS for DIVERSION. 



As great a difference as there is between the 

 tafte of the Chinefe, and that of other nations 

 in their cuftoms, drefs, and other things, it is 

 full as great with regard to flower gardens 

 and thofe intended for diverfion. They take 

 very little care about flower-pieces, hedges, 

 covered walks, and fymmetry; they are better 

 pleafed with a naked place, laid with ftones of 

 different colours and fizes in the figure of dra- 

 gons or flowers, than if they were adorned 

 with pretty defigns, and the fpaces filled up 

 with plants or grafs. Their walks rauft like- 

 wife not be open ; but generally they are in- 

 clofed with walls, on the fides of which vines 

 and other climbing plants are planted ; which 

 being ftrained from wall to wall on poles, by 

 this means form a covered walk. The benches 

 made in thofe walks are not lined with walls 

 on the fides, and, by the peculiar conuru&ion 

 of the (tones, they are provided with feveral 

 holes in which they place pots with different 

 flowers. The walks have many bending*; 

 Vo l. II. X foraetimes 



