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Knots of fowers nvere more defenfibly fubjeSfed to the famé 

 regularity. Leifure, as Mil ton exprejfed it. 



In trim gardens took his pleafure. 

 In the garden of ??iarfial de Biron at Paris, confjîing of 

 fourteen acres, every walk is buttoned on each fide by lities 

 of fower-potSy which fucceed in their feafons. When I faw 

 îty there were nine thoufand pots of AJîers, or la Reine 

 Marguerite. 



We do not precifely knoiv what our anceftors meant by a 

 bower, it was probably an arbour -, fometimes it meant the 

 whole frittered inclojure, a?îd in one infta?ice it certainly in- 

 cluded a laby?'inth. Rofamonis boiver was indifputably of 

 that kijîdy though whether compofcd of loalls or hedges we 

 cannot détermine. A fqiiare and a round labyri?ith were fo 

 capital ingrédients of a garden for mer ly, that in Du Cerceau s 

 architecture, who lived in the ti?ne of Charles IX. and Henry 

 III. there is fcarce a ground-plot without one of each. The 

 enchantment of antique appellations has confecrated a pleqfing 

 idea of a royal refidence, of which we now regret the cx' 

 tin£îion. Havering in the Bower, the jointure of many dow- 

 ager queens, conveys to us the notiojî of a r ornant ic fcene. 



In Kifs views of the fcats of our nobility and gentry, we 



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