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SECTION XI. 



OF RURAL AND EXTENSIVE GARDENING. 



TyURAL and extenjlve garden hig is naturally connected 

 -*■*' with a taite lor planting foreft trees ; and an idea of 

 the piclurejque ihould ever accompany the work of 

 planting. Merely for the fake of objecls to gratify 

 the eye, planting is very often purfued,- and where- 

 ever trees can be introduced to improve a view from 

 the houfe, or accuftomed walks, there a man, having it 

 in his power, as proprietor of the land, ought certainly 

 to plant. 



It to planting in clumps, coppices, groves, avenues, , 

 and woods, be added levelling of ground, improving of 

 water courfes, and paftures, making lawns, '&c. the 

 expence incurred would be honourable, and aniwered 

 by pleafures of the fincereft kind! There are ways of 

 fpending money, that could be named, which are found 

 mifchievous in the extreme, and are therefore deferv- 

 edly branded with difgrace; but he who diftributes 

 wealth into the hands of indujlry, working to ufeful 

 purpofes, and that delegable end of making the country 

 about him a garden, does it in wildom. 



Yet here fome caution may be neceflary. " Do 

 nothing too much," is a wife maxim. Building, plant- 

 ing, and gardening, upon a large fcale, have been fome- 

 times attended with Jerious confequences, as when a 

 man's fortune has not been equal to the undertaking. 



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