SECT. XI. OF RURAL GARDEN' INC. 1.C3 



level, as walking up and down hills can hardly be called 

 pleafure. That they may be extenfive, they mould 

 flkirt the grounds, and feldom go acrofs them. In 

 Tmall pleafure grounds the edges of the walks fhoifW be 

 regularly planted with flowers, and long ones occafion- 

 ally fo, or with the mofl dwarf fhrubs; and neat fhel- 

 tered compartments of flowers, (every now and then 

 to be met with) have a preity effect. If the walks 

 are extended to diftant plantations of forefi trees, every 

 opportunity fliould be taken, to introduce fomethin 

 of the herbaceous flowery kind, which will prove the 

 more pleafmg, as iound in unexpected fituations : The 

 outer walk of pleafure grounds and plantations, mould 

 every now and then break into open views of the 

 country, and to parts of the internal fpace, madepleaf- 

 rag, if not {hiking, by fome work of art, or decoration 

 of nature. 



Water mould only be introduced where it will rim 

 itfelf clear, or may be eafily kept {o, as alfo in full 

 fight, and fome fall of it mould be contrived, (if 

 poflible,) for the lake of giving it motion and found. 

 becaufe a lively fcene of this element is always much 

 more pleafant than a dead one. Every [prhiv of water 

 mould be made the mofl of, and though fountains, See. 

 are out of fafhion, fomething of this kind is aoreeable 

 enough, Near fome pieces of water, as a coof retreat, 

 it is defirable that there mould be fomething of the 

 Jummer-houfe kind, and why not the fimple ruilic 

 arbour, embowered with the woodbine, the fweelbriar, 

 the jafmine and the rofe. Pole arbeurs are tied well 

 together with bark or ozier twigs. 



" Before the defign of a rural and extenfive garden 

 be put in execution, it ought to b e confidered, or 

 anticipated, what it will hem twenty or thirty years 

 time; tor it often happens, that a defign which looks 

 handfome when it is firfl planted, and in good propor- 

 tion, becomes fo fmall and ridiculous in procefs of 

 time, that there is a neceflity either to alter it, or 

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