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nicety of a weli-niade-up flower-pot. To strike with 

 tlie stronger surprise, the trees should be all exotics, 

 and of the rarest kinds ; and to create greater va- 

 riety, though the choese form, from its fantastical 

 appearance, and the Corinthian order, from its 

 magnificence, be in general the properest for such an 

 adonied garden ; yet buildings of all species under 

 the sun, that have dignity in them, should here find 

 place. 



In short, every agreeable object that creates sur- 

 prise, and that exhibits a view of magniticent art,should 

 enter into the composition of such a garden. It is 

 more proper when in the neighbourhood of a great 

 city, and thrown open to alt the world, than when 

 in a remote province ; and for that reason, some ot 

 the FRENCH gardens have an excuse which those at 

 STO"VVE have not. 



A garden like this is a kind of fairy land: it is in 

 comparison of other gardens, what an opera is m 

 comparison of a tragedy; neither of them should be 

 judged of by the ordinary rules of experience, or 

 taste ; but by the capricious ones of variety and 

 fancy. 



"^If these rules are just with regard to the four 

 capital and distinct situations of grounds, it will be 

 no difficult matter to apply them to all tiie variety of 

 grounds, of which situations for gardens generally 

 consist. It is but seldom that a situation coiisistent 

 with a single person's conveniency, is so precisely 

 and particularly marked as to suit only one of the 

 four situations I have mentioned ; on the contrary 

 grounds generally consist of several of these situations, 

 mixed and running into each other. In this case, the 

 taste of the gardener will be shewn, in proportioning 

 his distribution and assemblage to that particular de- 

 gree of resemblance, which the part he is then laying 

 out bears to one or other of the four capital situa- 

 tions. 



Nor in doing this need the gardener be confined 

 if his ground is very various, by the fear of too quick a 



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