of gardening among the Ancients. 3 15 
manner, as that they appeared, in their lower 
parts, to be compofed of that flirub, while their 
tops flourifhed, in their native verdure and 
foliage. 
The ivy, fpreading from one tree to another, 
conne&ed them together into an uniform appear¬ 
ance. Between each of the plane trees, box 
were planted, and behind thefe, bay trees, which 
blended their' fhade with that of the planes. 
This plantation formed a fireight boundary on 
each fide of the Hippodrome, and, at the end, 
bent into a femicircular form, bordered with cy- 
prefs trees, which ferved to vary the profpedl, and 
to call a deeper and more gloomy fhade whilfl 
the internal circular walks, feveral of which there 
were, planted with roles, formed a contrail to the 
fhade of the others. Thefe winding paths 
terminated in a ftreight walk, which again 
divided into feveral others, feparated from one 
another by box hedges. In one place there was 
a little meadow; in another, the box was cut 
into a tnoufand different forms; fometimes, into 
letters, expreffing the name of the mafter ; fome¬ 
times, that of the artificer ; whilfl here and there, 
little o'oelifks arofe, intermixed alternately with 
fruit trees; and in the midft of this regularity 
of arrangement, fo fuited to the tafle of the 
inhabitants of a great city, there arofe an unex- 
pefted fcene, refembling the natural beauties of 
the 
