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Amidst the plants stands sometimes a Saguer, as they call it, or 

 scarce outlandish tree, sometimes a dwarf-tree or two. 3. A 

 small rock or hill in a corner of the garden, made in imitation 

 of nature, curiously adorn'd with birds and insects, cast in brass, 

 and placed between the stones, sometimes the model of a temple 

 stands upon it, built, as for the sake of the prospect they generally 

 are, on a remarkable eminence, or the borders of a precipice 

 Often a small rivulet rushes down the stones with an agreeable 

 noise, the whole in due proportions and as near as possible 

 resembhng nature. 4. A small bush, or wood, on the side of the 

 hill, for which the gardiners chuse such trees, as will grow close 

 to one another, and plant and cut them according to their 

 largeness, nature, and the colour of their flowers and leaves, so 

 as to make the whole very accurately imitate a natural wood, or 

 forest. 5. A cistern or pond, as mention'd above, with alive fish 

 kept in it, and surrounded with proper plants, that is such, as love 

 a watry soil, and would lose their beauty and greeness if planted 

 in a dry ground. It is a particular profession to lay out these 

 gardens, and to keep them so curiously and nicely as they ought 

 to be, as I shall have an opportunity to shew more at large in 

 the sequel of this history. Nor doth it require less skill and 

 ingenuity to contrive and fit out the rocks and hills above 

 mention'd according to the rules of art. What I have hitherto 

 observed will be sufficient to give the reader a general idea of 

 the Inns of Japan. — History of Japan. 



Author of ' Sy sterna A^culturm' 1669, and * Sysiema HorticulturcB,' 1677. JOHN 



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THE excellency of a Garden is better manifested by experi- (j^th cent.). 

 ence, which is the best Mistress, than indicated by an 

 imperfect Pen, which can never sufficiently convince the Reader 

 of those transcendent pleasures, that the Owner of a Complete 

 Garden with its Magnificent Ornaments, its Stately Groves, and 

 infinite variety of never dying Objects of Delight every day enjoys ; 

 Nor how all his Senses are satiated with the great variety of 



