OF GARDENS OLD AND NEW 



He mentions next the trees, which were stand- Ancient 

 ards, and suffered to grow to their full height. ^ 0( j ern 

 The fine description of the fruits that never gardens 

 failed, and the eternal zephyrs, is only a more cc 

 noble and poetical way of expressing the con- 

 tinual succession of one fruit after another, 

 throughout the year. 



The vineyard seems to have been a planta- 

 tion distinct from the garden; as also the beds 

 of greens mentioned afterwards at the extremity 

 of the inclosure, in the nature and usual place 

 of our kitchen gardens. 



The two fountains are disposed very remark- 

 ably. They rose within the inclosure, and were 

 brought by conduits, or ducts, one of them to 

 water all parts of the gardens, and the other 

 underneath the palace into the town for the 

 service of the public. 



How contrary to this simplicity is the mo- 

 dern practice of gardening! We seem to make 

 it our study to recede from nature, not only in 

 the various tonsure of greens into the most regu- 

 lar and formal shapes, but even in monstrous 

 attempts beyond the reach of the art itself. We 

 run into sculpture, and are yet better pleased 

 to have our trees in the most awkward figures 

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