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The the products of the same season, that they may 

 a ma ^ e tne i r appearance together, and compose 

 pleasant a picture of the greatest variety. There is the 

 1 same irregularity in my plantations, which run 

 into as great a wilderness as their natures will 

 permit. I take in none that do not naturally 

 rejoice in the soil; and am pleased, when I am 

 walking in a labyrinth of my own raising, not 

 to know whether the next tree I shall meet with 

 is an apple or oak; an elm or a pear tree. My kit- 

 chen has likewise its particular quarters assign- 

 ed it : for besides the wholesome luxury which 

 that place abounds with, I have alwaysthought 

 a kitchen garden a more pleasant sight than 

 the finest orangery, or artificial greenhouse. 

 I love to see everything in its perfection : and 

 am more pleased to survey my rows of cole worts 

 and cabbages, with a thousand nameless pot- 

 herbs, springing up in their full fragrancy and 

 verdure, than to see the tender plants of foreign 

 countrieskept alive by artificial heats, or wither- 

 ing in an air and soil that are not adapted to 

 them. I must not omit that there is a fountain 

 rising in the upper part of my garden, which 

 forms a little wandering rill, and administers 

 to the pleas ureas well as the plenty of the place. 



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