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- in thickets, he should if possible make the colours 

 run into and lose themselves in each other, like the 

 dies of the rainbow. As this is the situation in which 

 the bea ity of single trees may be best seen, so it is 

 \iere chiefly that the connoisseur in the science of 

 trees should exert his knowledge and taste. 



The buildings should consist most of the Chi- 

 nese and GRECIAN architecture ; and in this last 

 the simplicity and elegance of the ionic order, 

 should be preferred to the others. A Chinese 

 buildhig on the summit of a hill, not only agrees with 

 the airy situation of the place, but carries our 

 thoughts to the sultry climates of china. A Gre- 

 cian temple on the side of a hill, or on the banks of 

 a river, transports our fancy to the temperate and 

 delightful vallies and mounts of old Greece. 



Fourth I The last situation is that of a dead flat. 

 Situation. \ As such a situation ot itself raises little 

 or no sentiment, so the whole fancy of the gardener 

 should be employed in carryins; the thought, by the 

 parade of art, from attending to this defect of nature. 

 The perfection of the other gardens lies in following 

 nature; there is often a necessity in this one of going 

 directly against her : and as art in the others was for 

 the most part to be concealed ; so here, on the con- 

 trary, it is sometimes with affectation to be exposed. 

 The ENGLISH in such a situation attempt to 

 humour nature; the French in such a situation at- 

 tempt to hide her. The first, from their too great 

 love to her, expose even her weakness ; the last, from 

 their contempt of her, conceal even her beauties. If 

 these two tastes were to make concessions to each 

 other, perhaps the point of perfection might lie be- 

 twixt the two. 



In a small flat, the serpentine rive-, the open 

 planting, the lake and island, the moulding the flat 

 into the gentle unevennesses of Kent, have a rural 

 and cheerful aspect. Of this last particularly, there 

 is a fine instance in Kent's plantation at the back of 

 the house at chiswick, compared with the phleg- 



