3 20 Dr. Falconer on the Style and Fajie 
and free from the proximity of other trees, or 
plants. 
It is remarkable here, that the tafte of the 
author, for the beauties of nature, breaks out 
among his defcription of the moll artificial 
ornaments. Immediately after defcribing the 
fence of the garden, covered with graduated 
box trees, he adds, that the adjoining meadow, 
was as beautiful by nature, as the garden had 
been rendered by art ■, and, in another place, 
mentions the contrail of the beauties of rural 
nature, with thofe of art, * as one of the chief 
ornaments of his garden. The fame apology 
that has been made for the ftyle, in which 
Pliny’s gardens were laid out, is applicable to 
the eaftern gardens in general, and holds, (till 
more ftrongly, as the heat becomes more con- 
ftant and intenfe. We may farther obferve, 
that this mode fuits the difpofition of the eaftern 
people, in many other refpedls. The regularity 
* Juvenal appears to have poflefied a good tafte in 
gardening, and laying out grounds, from what he fays 
of the artificial grottoes at Aricinum, and the attempt 
to ornament the water, by fubftituting marble, in place 
of its natural boundary of herbage. 
In Vallem Egeriaj defcendimus, et fpeluncas 
Diffimiles veris: quanto prteftantius effet 
Numcn aqute, viridi ft margine clauderet undas 
Herba, nec ingenuum violarent marmora tophum ? 
Juvenal. Satyr. III. L. 17. 
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