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Vol. 3. commencos with an Introduction to Rutal and 

 extensive Gardening, beginning with a praise of its object, 

 the mode of weaving the " utile harmoniously with the dulce'* 

 and the metliod by whicli it may be rendered profitable instead 

 of expensive. In doing this he objects to needless expense in 

 extensive walls ; espaliers of Forest Trees ; variety of exotics ; 

 levelling and incxperiencing of designers. — To the justness of 

 the second, fourth and fifth objections all must subscribe, but 

 unless our grounds are to become mere Kitchen grounds ; and 

 be deficient in the majority of our vegetable beauties, who 

 will retrench his Walls, or thin the ranks of his exotics ? — But 

 here we must not mistake the object of our author, he was en- 

 deavouring most correctly to shew that many delightersin Hor- 

 ticulture, might do so, might improve nature in her arrange- 

 ments even to profit ; and that many who aimed at profit need 

 not lose sight of beauty in their compositions. — Chap. 1. 

 Sect. 1. Is on "design in general, and the necessary qualifica- 

 tions of a good designer." — Design is to befonnded on variety, 

 a principal most correct, but which he illustrates by a quotation 

 from the Spectator, the charms of variety are in this well in- 

 sisted on, but the illustration of Jets d'eau, in which is a 

 formality of motion, is at once incongruous and unvarying--" A 

 little regulai'ity is allow'd near the main building" to the just- 

 ness of which I think no person of true taste can object. Sud- 

 den transitions surprise, a gradual procession from finished 

 Art to wild Nature is pleasing and soothing—the mind expands 

 by degrees without exertion. — Nothing to mo appears more 

 destitute of taste than a mansion rising as it were out of the 

 sward of a Park which touches its very V/alls — I would almost 

 rather have it surrounded by monsters in evergreens. There 

 certainly should be a girding of parterres, expanding through 

 Lawns, and Plantations, into the Park and its Wooded scites. 

 — A Designer he contends must be a student of Nature — ac- 

 quainted with the Poets, a tolerable Mathematician, Historian, 

 and Architect; active, vigorous, and ready — qualifications 



